Levels of Data
Gaining Knowledge
Tests
Grammar
Theory Terms
100
A variable that can only have two values.
What is a dummy/dichotomous variable?
100
Using the most concise answer or explanation.
What is parsimony?
100
A type of validity; results can be used to understand cases not studied.
What is external validity?
100
The word that follows a comma when joining two ICs.
What is a coordinating conjunction? (FANBOYS)
100
The variable that the researcher is trying to explain.
What is the dependent variable?
200
This level of data has a specific order, but different sizes of intervals.
What is ordinal level data?
200
A statement that reflects personal belief on a desired course of action.
What is a normative statement?
200
A type of validity; your results can be used to understand the specific cases studied
What is internal validity?
200
The most common verb form of affect/effect.
What is affect?
200
The variable that is affecting the variable the researcher is trying to explain.
What is the independent variable.
300
Data that the researcher collects
What is primary data?
300
An objective or neutral statement; a presentation of facts.
What is a positive statement?
300
A category of tests a researcher uses when n is small.
What is a qualitative test?
300
The type of punctuation that does not accompany a coordinating conjunction when joining two ICs.
What is a semi-colon?
300
Social science does not have _______ because human behavior is not 100% predictable.
What are laws?
400
Level of data that does not have an order.
What is categorical/nominal data?
400
Developing a theory from seeing patterns in the data.
What is induction?
400
A category of test a researcher uses when n is large.
What is a quantitative test?
400
The numbers that Hacker says should be written out.
What are 1-100.
400
A theory applied to a specific situation; the form a theory takes when it is being tested.
What is a hypothesis?
500
This level of data has a specific and consistent intervals.
What is interval/continuous level data?
500
Developing a theory from a prior belief or another theory.
What is deduction?
500
A type of test performed when values of the independent variable can be randomly assigned.
What is an experiment?
500
The noun that a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
500
The capability of being false.
What is falsifiability?
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