Levels of Measurement
Sampling
Types of Tests
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100

Gender, ethnicity, or political affiliation 

Nominal

100

Surveying your friends from your class. 

Convenience Sampling

100

A positive relationship between 2 variables.

Correlation

100

To report significance we use the  ____ value.

P Value

100
The pull-down menu where we find correlations.

Analyze

200

Levels of education in categorical order

Ordinal

200

Drawing names blindly from a hat (or database). 

Random Sampling
200

A paired samples t test compares these 2 scores.

Pre-Test and Post-Test
200

We accept p < ____ as a threshold of significance.

p < .05 or p < .01

200

Participants are the rows and the variable names are the _____. 

Columns 
300

Reporting SAT scores for each participant.

Interval
300

Randomly selecting from different strata groups.

Stratified Sampling

300

An independent samples t test compares _____ groups in the independent variable.

2 groups

300

To explain the strength of the correlation we report the _____. 

r value
300

When completing your analysis, you must save your data file and your _______. 

output file

400

Continuous or scale types of data without a measurable zero point.

Ratio

400

Random sampling provides that every participant has the ________ to participate as anyone else.

Same chance

400

The independent variable in a one-way ANOVA compares ____ groups on a DV.

3 or more groups

400

We report the degrees of _____ from t test output. 

freedom

400

A test that tells us we violated our homogeneity of variance.

Levene's Test

500

Likert scales are this type of measurement. 

Ordinal

500

One way ANOVA require equal number of participants per ______. 

Group

500

The dependent variable in a one-way ANOVA must always be _____. 

Continuous

500

Reporting one-way ANOVA includes the p value, degrees of freedom, and the _____ value.

F value

500

Icon you click in SPSS to save.

A floppy disk