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All objects are equal. All categories are exhausted and mutually exclusive
Variable values are arbitrary |
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Logical order of categories
not equal distance between
some mathematical meaning |
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the values are ranked and have equal distance
logical order |
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| all the features for interval variables except has a true zero |
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| an attitude scale consisting of item with which the respondent has either to agree or disagree |
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| statement should be organized in a hierarchical order that as we move forward gets stronger. |
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| Attitude scale where you indicate your level of agreement |
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| technique measures the meaning that a concept has for an individual. |
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| does the measure predict something it should |
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| the measure gets results that are similar to established measures that are theoretically similar |
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| the measure fits within an existing theoretical framework the way it should |
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History threats
Social
Mortality
Fatigue/ maturation |
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| the degree to which the conclusion in your study would hold true to other persons |
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| a term that expresses an abstract idea formed by generalizing from particular and summarizing related observations |
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| combo of concepts: abstract idea that can be broken down into dimensions represented by lower-level concepts |
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| Suppose the fire department mandates that all fire fighters must weigh between 150 and 250 pounds. The weight of a fire fighter would be an example of a continuous variable; since a fire fighter's weight could take on any value between 150 and 250 pounds. |
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| Suppose we flip a coin and count the number of heads. The number of heads could be any integer value between 0 and plus infinity. However, it could not be any number between 0 and plus infinity. We could not, for example, get 2.5 heads. Therefore, the number of heads must be a discrete variable. |
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Informed consent
Purpose, voluntary nature and risk
Additional consent from participants with diminished autonomy |
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| Must minimize potential risk and maximize potential benefits |
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Participants who take the risks must receive the benefits
Needs to justify the selection of participants |
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| institutional review board |
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| reviews all research proposals for possible risks to participants and to make sure all participants are informed on their rights |
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• Student rights
• Data accuracy
• Data sharing
• Duplicate data publication
• Post-hoc hypothesis revision
• Participant identity disclosure
• Authorship credit |
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| the entire set of objects, observations or scores that have some characteristics in common: all possible people or units that can be included in a study |
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| people or units included in a research study: a subset of population that is representative of the entire pop. |
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| an estimate of the differences between observed and expected measurements |
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| lack randomization and sometimes doesn’t have control group |
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