A team of researchers wants to study whether the type of neighborhood a person lives in impacts his or her health.Because many different observers will be involved in the study,there is a need to make sure these different observers agree with each other when they make evaluations about neighborhood type and about what "health" looks like.If the various observers agree when they look at the data,they would have achieved which of the following?
A)coding
B)intercoder reliability
C)a high Cronbach's alpha
D)high accuracy

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Intercoder reliability refers to the degree to which two or more observers or coders agree with each other when making evaluations about a particular phenomenon. In this case, if the various observers in the study agree with each other when they make evaluations about neighborhood type and health, then they would have achieved intercoder reliability.

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