If respondents do not answer a survey honestly, the researcher may very well have a problem with
A. validity.
B. spurious relationships.
C. confounding.
D. serendipity.
Answer: A
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a. care and concern b. powerlessness and depersonalization c. politeness and cordiality d. brutality and degradation e. coldness and efficiency
Which of these is TRUE Biosphere 2?
A. It was a three acre, glass enclosed ecosystem designed to test the effect of pollutants. B. It showed that humans were capable of creating human-made substitutions for essential natural resources. C. Its $200 million dollar budget was not sufficient to carry out its mission. D. It was designed in the 1960s and continued to be usable through 2010.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The lifeworld is the taken-for-granted backdrop within which all situations are measured and given meaning. 2. Stocks of knowledge, recipes, and typifications are Schutz’s attempts to clarify Durkheimian notions of social action. 3. Each human has his/her own biographically articulated stock of knowledge. 4. Social life is only possible via shared interpretative schemes and language.
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a. 35 percent b. 50 percent c. 75 percent d. 80 percent