Freda wants to develop a measure of support for the legalization of marijuana such that she can assign scores to patterns of responses, such that some items reflect a relatively weak degree of the variable while others reflect something stronger. Which one of the following should she use?
a. index
b. scale
c. reliability
d. validity
e. nominal scale
B
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