Which of the following statements would be consistent with the nonpositivist critique of
measurement?
a. The social sciences should strive to quantify all measurement.
b. Social science measurement often involves the construction of something that
we believe exists in the world.
c. All the phenomena that social scientists measure exist objectively in the world
and are discovered by our measuring devices.
d. While interval and ratio variables can be objectively measured, nominal and
ordinal measures cannot.
B
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beneficiary and the applicant.
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