Quiz 6: Indexes, scales, and Typologies

Which of the following statements about typologies is FALSE?

Professor Swanson developed an index of marital happiness.Several items in Swanson's questionnaire were not part of the index (i.e.,"How many serious quarrels or arguments have you had with your spouse in the last year?" "If you had your life to live over,do you think you would marry the same person?").Swanson compared the index score of marital happiness with these questions.Swanson was doing

Which of the following is NOT necessary for a composite measure to have?

The following items and scoring scheme were taken from the Minnesota Survey of Opinions.The four items were part of a series of items designed to assess attitudes toward education.In the index SA=strongly agree,A=agree,U=undecided, D=disagree,and SD=strongly disagree 1)A MAN CAN LEARN MORE BY WORKING FOUR YEARS THAN BY GOING TO SCHOOL. SA(5)A(4)U(3)D(2)SD(1) 2)THE MORE EDUCATION A MAN HAS,THE BETTER HE IS ABLE TO ENJOY LIFE. SA(1)A(2)U(3)D(4)SD(5) 3)EDUCATION HELPS A PERSON TO USE HIS LEISURE TIME TO BETTER ADVANTAGE. SA(1)A(2)U(3)D(4)SD(5) 4)EDUCATION IS OF NO HELP IN GETTING A JOB TODAY. SA(5)A(4)U(3)D(2)SD(1) These items illustrate a ____ question format:

A ____ scale is a measurement technique for determining the willingness of people to participate in social relations-of varying degrees of closeness-with other kinds of people.

In Guttman scaling,the percentage of correct predictions performed in the scale is its:

Which of the following is NOT a frequent reason for the use of composite measures in research?

Professor Thames used a Guttman scale on his data set that he had seen published in a major journal.Thames was upset because the items did not scale on his data.Confused,he asked for your help.You should tell him

For inclusion into an index,two variables should have what kind of relationship?

Given the following patterns for a Guttman scale on life satisfaction,the coefficient of reproducibility is: (Note: a + = "Yes" and a - = "No")

Giving a set of judges a large number of items that are thought to be indicators of a given variable and asking them to estimate how strong an indicator of the variable each item is,is a technique used in constructing a ____ scale.

When a researcher is selecting items for a composite index,which of the following should be kept in mind?

Using Likert-type scale items,Professor Wong developed an index to assess job morale.Wong administered the index to 2,000 workers and found that a few of the responses were missing.Which of the following strategies would be BEST for Wong to use?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

After reading a journal article on political liberalism,Tony noticed that his data set contained the same items that the author had used to form a scale on political liberalism.So,Tony combined the items and applied them to his data.He was surprised when they did not form a scale.Confused,he asked you for an explanation.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

The following items measure the extent to which Americans are willing to associate with extraterrestrials. 1)It's OK if my child marries an extraterrestrial. 2)It's OK to have an extraterrestrial for a friend. 3)It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living on the block. 4)It's OK to have an extraterrestrial living in my community. These items illustrate a

Professor Duncan administered a questionnaire containing the following items: Please tell me how you feel about your supervisor's leadership style on the following three items: Duncan was using a

The coefficient of reproducibility for a Guttman scale should be at least

Which of the following do indexes and scales have in common?

If an index fails to predict strongly the external validation items,then