Research Ethics
Threats to Internal Validity
Psychometric Properties of a survey instrument
Measurement error
Tacos and Beer
100

The Belmont report established these three ethical principles, germane to the study of human subjects.

What are principles of Respect, Beneficence, and Justice?

100

People dropping out of a study.

What is mortality?

100

Psychometric properties of a survey instrument involve its reliability and this concept meaning fit of measure.

What is Validity?

100

These types of measurement errors arise from biases built into instrument design.

What are systematic errors?

100

Formal name for a popular topping consisting of mashed avocados, diced tomatoes/onions, and lime/lemon juice?

What is guacamole?

200

IRB stands for this oversight body that approves research projects. 

What is the Institutional Review Board?

200

If the instrument to collect data changes, what’s is the threat to internal validity?

What is instrumentation?

200

Consistency of measure.

What is reliability?

200

When info that is collected consistently reflects a false picture of concept measured, this is a sign of what this type of error.  

What is systematic measurement error?

200

Heineken is originally from which country?

What is the Netherlands?

300

Formal rules for the protection of human subjects.

What are procedural ethics?

300

When the change in the subject takes place over time, impacting the DV, regardless of the occurrence of the independent variable.  

What is maturation?

300

When a measurement instrument is tested against a known measure of the concept.

What is concurrent validity?

300

A survey instrument has the word “Blue” to connote depression. A respondent who was not born in the US interprets “Blue” to mean lonely. What type of is this?

What is cultural bias?

300

This street taco style eatery teamed up with Mike Hess Brewing in Imperial Beach back in 2018.

What is City Tacos?

400

Informal rules that involves the judgement of researchers on the ground.

Ethics in practice.

400

This threat occurs when people self select into either of the two treatment conditions. 

What is the threat of selection?

400

Test-retest, Inter-rater, Internal consistency.

What are three ways to establish the reliability of measurement instruments?

400

This type of systematic bias is due to respondents answering in a way that makes themselves or their referent group "look good" rather than answering truthfully.

What is social desirability bias?

400

What beer from Ballast Point shares a name with one of your nonprofit classmates?

(I don't know)

500

This Belmont Report principle that states that the benefits and risk must be explained to the subjects of the experiment. 

What is beneficence?

500

This threat to internal validity occurs when subjects chosen for the study because of a high or low value of the dependent variable.

What is statistical regression?

500
Name the four types of validity from the least rigorous to the most rigorous.

What are face, content, concurrent, and predictive validities?

500

Leading questions that prompt respondents to answer a certain way is this type of bias. For example, "All respected scientists agree that…"

What is acquiescence bias?

500

San Diego Taco Shop that donates 100% of its proceeds to charity.

What is Libertad?