Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. If respondents to a questionnaire do not find at least one response category that fits their response they are likely to skip the question entirely.
2. Questioning can be a poor way to measure certain socially desirable behaviors so it may be useful to triangulate in order to strengthen the measure.
3. Measurement validity exists when a measurement yields consistent scores or observations.
4. When researchers test alternate-forms reliability, they divide the sample in half and administer two forms of the questions.
5. An index is a composite measure based on summing, averaging, or otherwise combining the responses to multiple questions that are intended to measure the same variable; sometimes called a scale.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True

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