A pollster is interested in measuring how intensely people feel about an increased tax on hotel rooms to offset the price of the construction of a new sewer system
Which type of survey question would best assess the intensity of voters' opposition to this proposed tax?
a. questions with simple yes-or-no answer options
b. questions with approve-or-disapprove answer options
c. questions with five to seven answer options, ranging from strongly favor to strongly oppose
d. questions with interviewee-bias measures built in to answer options
e. questions with demographic-information measures built in to answer options
c
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Court’s decision in Wickard v. Filburn, which affirmed Congress’s power to regulate the private production and consumption of wheat, signaled an end to
a. a liberal judiciary. b. aggressive economic regulations. c. Roosevelt’s court packing plan. d. the Lochner era. e. the rights revolution.
Research articles that appear in the Journal of Applied Psychology are likely to be
a. laboratory based. b. experimental. c. basic. d. correlational.
______ is a type of measurement error that results in systematically over- or under-measuring the value of a concept.
a. Bias b. Operationalization c. Standard error d. Systematic validity