Which of the following scenarios best represents a cross-sectional research design?
a. A study examines individual political views across a life span. The researcher's hypothesis is that as individuals age, they become more conservative. The researcher randomly selects a sample from various age cohorts, to examine their political views on capital punishment, immigration, and federal spending. . A study examines individual political views across a life span. The researcher's hypothesis is that as individual's age, they become more conservative. The researcher randomly selects a sample from selected high school population and follows them for 50 years.
c. A study examines the relationship of individual political views and the amount of education they have completed. The researcher's hypothesis is that there is a positive relationship between education and liberal political views.
d. A study examines how individual political views change between 1981–1991 and 2001–2011.
a
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a. production blocking. b. social compensation. c. evaluation apprehension. d. performance matching.
Two student researchers wish to determine the degree of interobserver reliability they achieved in their study. They observed individual students who were approaching another person on a campus path. The two observers both independently recorded whether or not each observed student greeted the other person. Which of the following measures should the student researchers use to assess interobserver reliability?
A. Pearson Product-Moment correlation B. Spearman's rank-order correlation C. interobserver coding measure D. percentage agreement measure
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Because Comte believed that science should be practical and nonspeculative, his view of science was very similar to that of:
a. the Scholastics b. Popper c. Bacon d. Descartes