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 (I'll accept n)?
The stability or consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
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Who is Twig?
A usually very large set of people about which we are interested in drawing conclusions.
What is the population?
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?
Who is Violet?
Theoretical sampling distribution that summarizes a population in which scores are symmetrical around the mean.
What is the normal distribution?
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?
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Who is Trisha Paytas?
This theorem states that the sum, or the mean, of a number of independent variables has, approximately, a normal distribution, almost whatever the distributions of those variables.
What is the central limit theorem?
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 (won't accept N)?
Random assignment to treatment group is one way to increase this.
What is internal validity?
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Who is Jackson Mahomes?
Term 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 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) ?
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What is experimental realism?
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What is Motley Crue?
This singer recently won best new artist at the 2023 Grammys.
Who is Samara Joy?