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BESC Exam 1 Chapters 1-5 Questions and Answers
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BESC Exam 1 Chapters 1-5 Questionsand Answers
A variable that classifies people into racial or ethnic groups is what level of
measurement? - Answer -nominal
The number of students enrolled at UVU each year is an example of which level of
measurement? - Answer -ratio
The amount of time that a person spends on social media each week in minutes is a(n)
_____ variable. - Answer -ratio
If a person's sex is coded as Male = 0 or Female = 1, then that variable is at the _____
level of measurement. - Answer -nominal
If a person's sex is recorded as "Male" or "Female," then that variable is at the _____
level of measurement. - Answer -nominal
Which level of measurement has a true zero point? - Answer -ratio
The only level of measurement that does not place scores or categories into order (and
is therefore the lowest level of measurement) is the _____ level of measurement. -
Answer -nominal
The highest level of measurement (i.e., the one that contains the most information) is
the _____ level of measurement. - Answer -ratio
The group of people from whom you actually gather data is called the _____. - Answer -
sample
The larger group of people from which you got your observed group and to whom you
wish to generalize your results is called the _____. - Answer -population
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of experiments? - Answer -
manipulation
In an experiment, the variable that the researcher manipulates is called the _____
variable. - Answer -independent
The variable that is measured as the outcome in an experiment is called the _____
variable. - Answer -dependent
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