A young couple, Phil and Lillian notice that their weight varies on their home bathroom scale from day to day by an average of about 3.5 lbs. for Phil and 2.5 lbs. for Lilly. When they weigh themselves at their health club there are minimal noticeable fluctuations in their weights ( 1.0 lb.). What is the likely reason for these observations?
a. The bathroom scale has more standard error and less reliability than the scale at the health club
b. The health club scale has a large systematic error of measurement and a normal level of test-retest reliability
c. Data collected with the bathroom scale will have a larger Cronbach “?” than will data collected using the health club scale
d. A K-R 20 analysis of the data taken from both scales will show that the internal consistency of the bathroom scale’s findings have a greater K-R 20 value than is true of data from the health club scale
a. The bathroom scale has more standard error and less reliability than the scale at the health club
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