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Which term below refers to the process of assigning numbers to empirical events in compliance with a mapping rule. |
| | A) | Measurement |
| | B) | A mapping rule |
| | C) | Assignment |
| | D) | Order |
| | E) | Operationalization |
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Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of mapping rules? |
| | A) | classification |
| | B) | exclusiveness |
| | C) | order |
| | D) | distance |
| | E) | origin |
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_____ refers to the a series of numbers in which each number in the series is an equal distance from the next number? |
| | A) | Classification |
| | B) | Order |
| | C) | Distance |
| | D) | Origin |
| | E) | Exclusivity |
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Which of the following characteristics are exhibited by weight? |
| | A) | classification only |
| | B) | classification and order |
| | C) | classification, order, and distance |
| | D) | classification, order, distance, and origin |
| | E) | classification, order, distance, origin, and exclusivity |
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All of the following combinations of the characteristics of mapping rules are possible except _____. |
| | A) | classification only |
| | B) | classification and order |
| | C) | order only without the properties of classification, origin, and distance |
| | D) | classification, order, distance |
| | E) | classification, order, distance, origin |
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When analyzing nominal data, which measure of central tendency is appropriate? |
| | A) | mean |
| | B) | mode |
| | C) | median |
| | D) | range |
| | E) | dispersion |
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Movie critics rate movies using a system such that one star means good, two stars means very good, three stars means excellent, and four stars means extraordinary. This is a type of _____ scale. |
| | A) | ratio |
| | B) | interval |
| | C) | ordinal |
| | D) | nominal |
| | E) | semantic differential |
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An interval scale contains _____. |
| | A) | mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories as well as the property of order, but not distance or unique origin |
| | B) | the properties of order, classification, and equal distance between points but no unique origin |
| | C) | mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories, but without the properties of order, distance, and origin |
| | D) | the properties of classification, order, equal distance, and unique origin |
| | E) | the four major sources of error |
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What type of data is county population? |
| | A) | ratio |
| | B) | interval |
| | C) | nominal |
| | D) | ordinal |
| | E) | dispersed |
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Convergent validity and discriminant validity are components of _____ validity. |
| | A) | external |
| | B) | internal |
| | C) | criterion-related |
| | D) | construct |
| | E) | content |
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