Chapter 5
True/False Quiz
The measurement process moves from the abstract to the concrete.
- True
- False
“The bonding and bridging of people with one another” is an acceptable operational definition of social capital.
- True
- False
Marital status, as indicated by the categories married, widowed, divorced, separated, or never married, constitutes ordinal-level measurement.
- True
- False
Ratio-level measurement includes all the features of the other levels plus an absolute zero point.
- True
- False
If a measure is reliable, then it must be valid.
- True
- False
Reactive measurement tends to create systematic measurement error.
- True
- False
Random measurement error tends to lower reliability.
- True
- False
Split-half and internal consistency reliability assessments are limited to multi-item measures.
- True
- False
A high correlation between two administrations of the same scale to the same group indicates that the scale has high criterion-related validity.
- True
- False
A scale that is strongly correlated with the tendency to give socially desirable answers lacks discriminant validity.
- True
- False