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BESC 3010 Quizzes and Posttests
Chapters 1-8
A sample is a part of a larger? - Answer -population

A bivariate analysis typically focuses on? - Answer -the association of two variables

Inferential statistics are typically contrasted with________ statistics? - Answer -
descriptive

What is a defining characteristic of experiments? - Answer -manipulations

The respondent's gender is typically recorded as what variable? - Answer -nominal

In an experiment the variable that the researcher manipulates is called the? - Answer -
independent

which is bigger: a sample or population? - Answer -population

A variable that classifies people into racial or ethnic groups is what level of
measurement? - Answer -nominal

Which level of measurement has a true zero point? - Answer -ratio

The number of students enrolled in a school each year is an example of which level of
measurement? - Answer -ratio

If a researcher is able to survey 99% of all students enrolled in statistics classes at a
college, then that researcher has gathered data from a(n)? - Answer -sample

The variable that is measured as the outcome in an experiment is called the? - Answer -
dependent

Temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit (but not kelvin) is measured at which level of
measurement? - Answer -interval

The amount of time that a person spends on social media each week in minutes is what
variable? - Answer -ratio

, If the number of games a team has lost in a season is subtracted from the number of
games that they won in that season, the resulting variable would be at the ________
level of measurement. - Answer -interval

The only level of measurement that does not place scores or categories into order and
is the lowest level of measurement is called? - Answer -nominal

The highest level of measurement (the one that contains the most information) is the? -
Answer -ratio

If a person's sex is coded as male=0 or female=0 then that variable is at the _________
level of measurement. - Answer -nominal

If a persons sex is recorded as "male" or "female" then that variable is at the
___________ level of measurement. - Answer -nominal

A question that asks a person which religion (if any) they identify with is at the _______
level of measurement. - Answer -nominal

A question that asks a person how strong their motivations for religious participation are
using a 1-7 rating scale is at_________ level of measurement. - Answer -either the
ordinal or the interval

A question that asks how many times a person attends religious services each year is at
the ______ level of measurement. - Answer -ratio

For a study to be considered an experiment, it must have? - Answer -a manipulation

In an experiment that looks at the effect of different teaching methods on student
learning, the independent variable is? - Answer -teaching method

If a web marketer compares the effectiveness of two online ads in getting clicks by
gathering data from 3 million internet shoppers, the population interest is? - Answer -all
internet shoppers

A population can never be? - Answer -smaller than one of its samples

A univariate analysis typically focuses on? - Answer -one variable at a time.

A question that asks whether a person believes they are more creative, less creative, or
just as creative as other people is at the_____ level of measurement? - Answer -ordinal

A variable that records how many seconds it takes for a person to spell a word
backwards at the ______ level of measurement. - Answer -ratio

A scores frequency is determined by? - Answer -how often it occurs in the data set.

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