By asking survey respondents, "Do you think that highly-educated people smoke cigarettes as much as less-educated people?" when you want to test the hypothesis that education is negatively associated with smoking, what is the problem with this q
A) It is a double-barreled question.
B) It treats people's beliefs as being actual relationships.
C) It is a biased question.
D) It is a threatening question.
E) No problem, it is a good question.
B
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Which of the following methods of testing reliability gives the clearest indication of
reliability?
a. internal consistency approaches b. the test?retest method c. the multiple testing effects method d. the multiple forms approach
Your power analysis of a proposed policy suggests that many well-financed and organized groups are likely to oppose adoption of the policy. How would you describe this policy?
a. administratively unfeasible. b. economically unfeasible. c. effective and efficiency. d. politically unfeasible.
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of the community survey or target group survey approach to needs assessment?
a. It is one of the least direct ways to assess needs. b. possibly low response rates. c. measurement biases. d. time and expense.
A program can be distinguished from an intervention in that a program is ______.
A. more narrow in scope than the intervention so that an intervention will often have several programs within it B. be focused only on client outcome, whereas the intervention will often be focused on other aspects of success like efficiency and quality C. more broad in scope and will usually contain more than one intervention D. focused on the agency budget