PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blind Experiment, Replication Crisis, Knowledge Mobilization
8 Dec 2016
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Use measurements are objective, that all can understand. Draw from population you plan to apply the data towards. Must share it with others. (5)/(6) if we are all asked to measure with the same tool, we are all able to to come up with similar numbers, within a margin of error. typically trying to measure a variable. More information typically results in more accurate measurement. Ask the participant to tell me what the answer is self report. (7) reliable is consistency across multiple observations (8) test retest reliability. There should be a high consistency between the measurements in multiple time points for something to be reliable. (9) most of the time validity is hard , because it is subjective. Do you have a good operational definition of your constructs. Is my measure lining up with things it should and should not be lining up with. (10) generalizability. How the first set of results be applied to another situation.
