Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology 3rd Edition by Michael Maxfield, William Pasewark, Earl Babbie,Scott Pasewark

Exercise 2

We all have some sort of mental image of the pace of life. In a fascinating book titled A Geography of Time , Robert Levine (1997) operationalized the pace of life in cities around the world with a composite measure of the following:
a. How long it took a single pedestrian to walk 60 feet on an uncrowded sidewalk
b. What percentage of public clocks displayed the correct time
c. How long it took to purchase the equivalent of a first-class postage stamp with the equivalent of a $5 bill
Discuss possible reliability and validity issues with these indicators of the pace of life. Be sure to specify a conceptual definition for pace of life.