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Return to Approaches to Social Research 6e Student Resources
Chapter 05 True/False Quiz
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Operationalization generally precedes conceptualization.
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The "bonding and bridging of people with one another" is an acceptable operational definition of social capital.
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A questionnaire item measuring marital status, with the categories married, widowed, divorced, separated, or never married, constitutes ordinal-level measurement.
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Ratio-level measurement includes all the features of the other levels plus an absolute zero point.
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If a measure is reliable, then it must be valid.
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Reactive measurement effects tend to create systematic measurement error.
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Random measurement error tends to lower reliability.
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Split-half and internal consistency reliability assessments are limited to multi-item measures.
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Assessing the construct validity of a test on Chapter 5 consists of judging whether the test items are representative of the material covered in Chapter 5.
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An attitude scale that is strongly correlated with the tendency to give socially desirable answers lacks discriminant validity.
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