CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prodrug, Multiple Choice, Likert Scale
13 Jun 2016
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Victimization used for figuring out crime in certain areas. Self-reports of offending (frequency [how many crimes of a various type are committed over a specific period of time] vs. prevalence [refers to how many people commit crimes out of your population of interest]) Perceptions and attitudes: designing the data collection instrument. Avoid negative items and biased (and emotional) terms. Avoid double-barreled questions (when you agree with one part of a statement but not the other part) Pilot test (if possible) (pre-test; a way to identify confusing items) It saves time and money and helps ensure measure validity. Space to give answer in own words. Adv: easy to process and analyze; less non-response. ); you may forget or leave out a certain choice that would characterize a person. Adv: no limits to content; respondent"s own words. Disadv: misunderstanding and bias; non-response; sometimes people may answer a question that has nothing to do with the question.
