Question 1

Safrina developed a way to measure sexist attitudes. It worked such that a person with a sexist attitude score of zero truly had neutral attitude. A person who had a score of 50 had exactly double the score of someone with a score of 25. She created an)

Accepted Answer

A)  nominal variable. 
B)  interval variable. 
C)  ordinal variable. 
D)  ratio variable.

Question 2

Refer to the following paragraph to answer the questions below.
Maria Valencia developed a new test to measure intelligence or I.Q. She claimed that using her test, someone with an I.Q. of 180 would be considered twice as intelligent as someone with an I.Q. of 90. Someone with a score of 0, had absolutely no intelligence. In order to see how good it was, she tested two groups of students with her new test during the first week of the semester. One group scored low on existing I.Q. tests. The other scored very high. She found that those who scored low on old tests usually scored low on her new test, while those who scored very high on old tests usually scored high on the new test. In addition, she had the group of people who took the new test retake it at the midterm and again at the end of the semester. She found that a person's I.Q. score did not change across the three times it was measured during the semester.
-What is the problem with this measure of college student age? Please indicate your age: i) 17 to 18 years of age
Ii) 19 to 20 years of age
Iii) 21 to 22 years of age

Accepted Answer

A)  Its attributes are mutually exclusive. 
B)  Its attributes are at a nominal level of measurement. 
C)  Its attributes are not exhaustive. 
D)  Its attributes are double-barreled.

Question 3

You read an article on a study that mentions the "test-retest method." What is the author trying to demonstrate by using it?

Accepted Answer

A)  equivalence reliability 
B)  representative reliability 
C)  inter-coder reliability 
D)  stability reliability

Question 4

Professor DeGrassi found that a large majority of people who tried weight training had previously tried bicycling, swimming, and jogging. At the same time, joggers usually tried swimming and bicycling, but had not tried weight lifting. Also, many of those who bicycle have never tried any other form of exercise listed. What type of scaling technique should Professor DeGrassi utilize to organize the information?

Accepted Answer

A)  Guttman Scaling 
B)  Thurstone Scale 
C)  Semantic Differential 
D)  Likert Scale

Question 5

Which of the following is a measurement at the nominal level?

Accepted Answer

A)  personal income in a year 
B)  student grades 
C)  the color of a person's hair blond, brunette, redhead) 
D)  temperature

Question 6

A researcher seeks to validate a measure by comparing it with a "tried and true" preexisting measure. This researcher is using a type of validity called

Accepted Answer

A)  concurrent. 
B)  predictive. 
C)  face. 
D)  criterion.

Question 7

The measurement of a student's class standing as measured by: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or grad is measured at what level of measurement?

Accepted Answer

A)  interval 
B)  nominal 
C)  ratio 
D)  ordinal

Question 8

While scale and index are used interchangeably, there is a distinct difference between them. Explain the difference between a scale and an index.

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Question 9

When a research study is said to be generalizable to a diverse range of social settings, it is said that this study has good:

Accepted Answer

A)  convergence validity. 
B)  external validity. 
C)  equivalence validity. 
D)  internal validity.

Question 10

Think of all of the ways you could measure temperature. How could you measure temperature at the nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels of measurement?

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The answer of Think of all of the ways you...

Question 11

List the levels of measurement. Explain how each higher level of measurement builds on lower levels of measurement. Give two examples of each level of measurement.

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The answer of List the levels of measurement. Explain how...

Question 12

Dr. Arizona said that her measure of filial identity was unidimensional. Dr. Arizona is arguing that the indicators of the filial identity measure

Accepted Answer

A)  something across different time periods. 
B)  one and only one construct of the filial identity. 
C)  many different aspects of the filial identity. 
D)  the unit of analysis of the study.

Question 13

Which of the following is measured at the ordinal level?

Accepted Answer

A)  Martha is ten years older than Ruth. 
B)  Mary is older than Janet. 
C)  Sam is twice the age of his son. 
D)  George and Harry are the same age.

Exam 7: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement