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Details Title: Sociology 6 Description: Indexes and Scales Total Flash Cards: 8 Created: 02/27/2007 20:43:10	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Index and Scales similarities Definition ordinal measure, rank order units of analysis in terms of specific variables, utilize multiple data items Term Index Construction Definition Give people one point per item they've done, tally score Term Bogardus Social Scale Definition judges social distances with some stuff, rarely used Term Thurstone Scales Definition judges determine intensity of different scales, rarely used Term Likert Definition strongly agree strongly disagree Term Semantic Differential Scale Definition rank between extremes (good _ _ _ bad, dirty _ _ _ clean) Term Guttman Scale Definition select different intensity items, administer scale, determine if items have hierarchical pattern Term Chronbach's alpha Definition range is 0-1, closer to 1 is more unidimensional