Scales of Measurement
This scale of measurement is used to describe the state you were born in.
What is nominal?
This represents the number of individuals in the sample.
What is N?
This is the stability or consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
This is the name of Dr. Barnhart's chihuahua / rat terrior mutt.
Who is Tilly?
This is a usually very large set of people about which we are interested in drawing conclusions.
What is the population?
This scale of measurement is used to describe students' class standing in college (e.g., sophomore, senior)
What is ordinal?
This represents the mean of the population
What is mu?
This is the likelihood that inferences made in one study can be generalized to other times, samples, populations, etc.
What is external validity?
This is the name of Dr. Sylaska's schnauzer puppy.
Who is Violet?
This is a theoretical distribution that summarizes a population in which scores are symmetrical about the mean.
What is the normal distribution?
This scale of measurement is used to describe temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
What is interval?
This represents the variance in a sample.
What is s2 ?
This dictates the level of confidence with which we can infer causal relations between variables in a research study.
What is internal validity?
In a series of Twitter posts, this artist proclaimed, "I LOVE HITLER. I’M A NAZI," and "Hitler was soooo fresh."
Who is Kanye West?
This theorem is why the sampling distribution of means will always be approximately normal, even if a variable's distribution is not.
What is the central limit theorem?
This scale of measurement is used to describe the time (in seconds) it takes a driver to make a left hand turn after a traffic light turns green.
What is the ratio scale?
This represents the number of individuals in one group of the study.
What is n (won't accept N)?
Random assignment to treatment group is one way to increase this.
What is internal validity?
Funding for grants already awarded by this agency are now being cut off if they contain the words ‘biases’, ‘female’, ‘women’ and ‘disabilities' (among others).
What is the National Science Foundation.
This term is used to describe when every member of a population has an equal chance of being a study participant.
What is random sampling?
This feature distinguishes interval and ratio level data.
What is an absolute/true zero point?
This represents the standard error of the mean of a given sample.
What is sM (or s sub x-bar) ?
Even if lab experiments do not resemble situations a participant would encounter in the "real world", they may still recreate the mental/psychological states that would be experienced in the "real world." This is the term used to describe this.
What is experimental realism?
This Secretary of Health and Human Services was seen squirting methylene blue into his drinking water...perhaps to counteract the cognitive deficits brought on by his brain worm.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
WE Energies has proposed the construction of this kind of power plant in Kenosha County.
What is natural gas?