Exam 4: Concepts, Operationalization, and Measurement

Ranks in the local police department represent what level of measurement?

_______________ is a matter of whether a particular measurement technique, applied repeatedly to the same object, will yield the same result each time.

Which of the following variables allows for attributes to be placed on a continuum with equal distance between points?

The assignment of grades by the professor to major research papers is an example of _____.

Crimes must at a minimum have an offender, because without an offender there is no crime.

Sometimes it is necessary to make the same measurement more than once.This is known as _____.

Compare and contrast UCR and NCVS with respect to the type of crime data they collect and how they collect it.Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Which of the following is accounted for by the NCVS?

Logical sets of attributes are known as _____.

The most effective method of accounting for certain crimes, such as delinquency and victimless crimes, are _____.

Which of the following are referred to as a summary based measure of crime?

The NVCS is based on a nationally representative sample of _____.

Concepts are ______.

Validity refers to the degree to which a measure covers a single range of meanings included within the concept.

_________________ is the process by which we specify precisely what we mean when we use a particular term.

Professor Smith is studying attitudes toward gun control and plans to assess support for firearms registration by determining whether or not her research subjects say they would travel to countries where the possession of unlicensed guns is legal.Her critics argue that this measure lacks _____.

When including an item on a questionnaire that asks about marijuana use in the following way: never used, used 1 - 5 times, used 6 - 10 times, used more than ten times, this would be an example of what type of variable?

Using the progression of measurement steps how would you proceed in measuring "serious crime."

Discuss the measures used to ensure reliability: test-retest method and interrater reliability.

The production report generated at the city police department contains the number of arrests made by each officer on a monthly basis.What level of measurement would number of arrests be?