Evaluating Reliability and Validity in ResearchIn this activity, you will examine research scenarios for potential reliability and validity problems.Reliability and validity are different. As you think about the research scenarios below, determine if each one presents a reliability problem, a validity problem, or both kinds of problems.We predict the likelihood that study participants will get married by using a magic-8 ball.
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested Answer: varies
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The development of social media means that
a. fewer people in the United States participate in social networks. b. it is no longer important for people in our society to be "well connected." c. in the computer age, typical social networks now link more people. d. our population is increasingly isolated socially with smaller social networks.
Describe a scenario that would serve as an example of a person who is in the psychic stage of remarriage
What will be an ideal response?
What is the relationship between formal education and occupational status?
a. There is none? many people are "self-taught" and work their way up the corporate ladder b. The higher one's occupational status, the greater the likelihood that person has a great deal of formal education. c. Many years of formal education virtually guarantees one will have a high prestige job. d. Many high prestige jobs require little formal education.
A women who was born and raised in a poor family does well in school and gets a well-paid job as a computer engineer right after college. This is an example of
a. horizontal mobility b. intergenerational mobility c. intragenerational mobility d. institutional mobility