Exam 6: Choosing the Best Measure for Your Study

Which of the following measurement scales has equal scale units along the entire scale?

Which is most harmful to a measure's sensitivity?

If we only need to know whether two groups differ from one another, we need at least ______ level measurement.

A measure of how much time a couple spends looking into each other's eyes is:

Ratio scale numbers are the most informative type of number used in research.

The most complex level of measurement is

If a professor correlates hours of that students work with the number of academic units they are carrying during the current term, measurement of academic units carried should be:

If we want to know if one group has MORE of a quality than another group, we can't use a measure that produces ____ numbers.

A measure's ability to detect small differences is called reliability.

If you ranked 12 students according to their physical attractiveness, you would most likely generate a(n) ______ scale.

All of the following are nominal numbers except

Interval scale numbers permit you to talk about how many times more of a quality one participant has relative to another.

When choosing between several measures, you should