Type of composite measure that summarizes and rank-orders several specific observations and represents some more-general dimension
What is a scale?
Type of composite measure composed of several items that have a logical or empirical structure among them.
Which is not one of the four main steps to index construction?
Selecting possible items
Examining their empirical relationships
Scoring
Revoking
What is a bivariate relationship?
A relationship between two variables
Whether or not the US should contribute military personnel to the U.N.
A strong relationship that may indicate that two items measure the same thing
All of the above.
What is a multivariate relationship?
A relationship between more than two variables
A relationship between two variables
The status of one variable
None of the above.
What is index scoring?
Creating a single composite measure out of the several items
Equal weighting should be the norm.
True
False
Which of the following is a method for validating an index?
Item analysis
External validation
Bad index vs. Bad validators
All of the above
External Validation
The process of testing the validity of a measure by examining its relationship to other, presumed indicators of the same variable
What are two possibilities of Bad Index vs. Bad Validators?
What is the Bogardus Social Distance Scale?
A measurement technique for determining the willingness of people to participate in social relations
Varying degrees of closeness with other kinds of people
Efficient technique in that one can summarize several discrete answers without losing any of the original details of the data
All of the above.
Thurstone Scale
Type of composite measure constructed in accord with the weights assigned by "judges" to various indicators of some variables
Likert Scale
Type of composite measure developed in an attempt to improve the levels of measurement in social research through the use of standardized response categories in survey questionnaires, to determine the relative intensity of different items.
Semantic Differential
A questionnaire format in which the respondent is asked to rate something in terms of two, opposite adjectives using qualifiers much as "very", "somewhat", "neither", etc. To bridge the distance between the two opposites.
Guttman Scale
Type of composite measure used to summarize several discrete observations and to represent some more-general variable
Typology
The classification of observations in terms of their attributes on two or more variables
Whenever the typology is used as the _________, there will probably not be a problem. It is extremely difficult to analyze a typology as a _______ however.
Dependent variable; independent variable
Independent variable; dependent variable
None of the above.
What are commonalities of scales and indexes?
Both are ordinal measures of variables
Both rank-order the units of analysis by specific variables
Both are composite units of measure
All of the above.
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