Misc.
Four types of Validity
What is Face Validity, Criterion, Content, and Construct?
Theory
What is a set of related propositions which attempt to explain why events and relationships occur?
Three Types of Statements
What is Normative Statements, Empirical Statements, and Prescriptive Statements?
Three Types of Knowledge
What is Faith, Reason, and Scientific?
Three levels of measurement
What is Nominal, Ordinal, and Interval?
Definition of Event Data
What is recording the number of times a specified event has happened?
Definition of an Independent Variable
What is the presumed cause of change?
Definition of a prescriptive statement
What is recommendation on how to achieve a desired goal?
Definition of Faith
What is appeal to authority?
Likert Scale is a
What is a interval/ratio?
Definition of a focus group
What is a small group discussion led by a researcher?
Definition of Problem of Validity
What is incorrectly operationalizing a variable?
Definition of a Empirical statement
What is a statement of fact?
Definition of Reason
What is logical, makes sense; role of assumptions?
Definition of a Random Sample
What is everyone in the target population has an equal chance to be included in the sample?
Definition of Textual Data
What is systematic analysis of any form of communication (speeches, written documents, seating arrangements, etc....)?
Definition of a Confounding Variable
What is a third variable that affects both the independent variable and dependent variable?
Describe how the statements interrelate
What is prescriptive statements can be made up of both empirical and normative statements and statements can sound empirical and have a normative component?
What is based on observations, rationality/reason, verifiable, and falsifiable?
Definition of Operationalism
What is defining abstract variables with abstract indicators?
Name the two kinds of error and give their definitions
What is Sampling, random, non-systematic- error that occurs even with a pure random sample- luck of the draw.
Non-sampling, non-random, systematic- bias in the way the sample is down?
Definition of Split-Ballot Experiment
What is random portions of the survey sample receive questionnaires or procedures?
An example of a empirical statement
What is the sky is blue? Any fact will work for this one :)
Name one of the four elements of Scientific Knowledge and give its definition
What is based on observations
rationality/reason- facts musts be interpreted in context of theory; importance of assumptions
verifiable- ability to replicate
falsifiable- testable where one of the potential outcomes, if it occurred, would show you to be wrong?
Name issues that could arise with a CATI survey