PSYB01H3 Lecture 9: Week 09 Lecture Notes
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Need to break them down: screening questions, can question sequence be controlled, content issues, biases in social desirability. Facts and demographics (age, gender, cultural background, religion) Useful when the dimensions of the variable are well defined: types of questions, dichotomous allowed, two possible responses (yes/no; true/false; agree/disagree, do you believe that physician assisted (cid:494)suicide(cid:495) should be. ______male ______female: based on levels of measurement, nominal, occupation, 1= education, 2= healthcare, 3=law, ordinal, please rank the following movies in order of preference from best to worst: Interval: likert scale, physician assisted deaths should be allowed in some circumstances, semantic differential scale. _____yes ______no: responses to questions, partially open ended items (dillman, 2000, resemble restricted items, but present an (cid:498)other(cid:499) category, and an opportunity to answer in a way that is not listed or predetermined, open-ended questions. Respondents are free to answer in any way they like. Population is composed of all individuals of interest to the researcher.
