Scales of Measurement
The scale of measurement used to describe the state you were born in.
What is nominal?
The number of individuals in the sample.
What is N?
The stability or consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
The scale of measurement used to describe students' class standing in college (e.g., sophomore, senior)
What is ordinal?
The mean of the population
What is mu?
The likelihood that inferences made in one study can be generalized to other times, samples, populations, etc.
What is external validity?
The scale of measurement used to describe temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
What is interval?
The variance in a sample
What is s2 ?
The level of confidence with which we can infer causal relations between variables in a research study.
What is internal validity?
Scale of measurement 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?
The number of individuals in one group of the study.
What is n?
Random assignment to treatment group is one way to increase this.
What is internal validity?
This feature distinguishes between interval and ratio level data.
What is an absolute/true zero point?
The standard error of the mean of the 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." The term used to describe this is....
What is experimental realism?