PSYB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Sample Size Determination, Simple Random Sample
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Can ask about: attitudes, needs, desires, interests, behaviours, demographics. The questions themselves operationalize the variables: ex. Thinking about some different topics please indicate your support for: legalizing marijuana for medicinal use, legalizing marijuana for recreational use, decriminalizing marijuana. Look for: appropriate response options, comprehensive response options, mutually exclusive response options (no overlap) Double-barreled: please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about the childcare program, incorrect. I feel welcomed by staff and other youth at the center: correction. I feel welcomed by staff at the center. I feel welcomed by other youth at the center. I always recycle __ yes __ no: a scale should be used instead. Confusing, negative, or ambiguous wording: ex. Higher than single-family density is acceptable in order to make housing affordable: solution: in order to make housing affordable, is it acceptable to build housing whose buildings hold more than one family, ex. Yea-saying, nay-saying, or fence sitting: ex.
