SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operational Definition, Job Satisfaction, Law School Admission Test
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Criteria for measurement quality: precision and accuracy born in pei), p. 129, reliability object/person, precision: fineness of distinctions made between attributes composing a variable. May not be have been collected each time in repeated observations of the same phenomenon identical but it must have a similar result. Reliability: reliability refers to the likelihood that a given measurement would yield the similar, not identical description of a given phenomenon if that measurement were repeated. I use education to measure ses and you use the same indicators you should come up with similar results indicating the person"s economic statements. If i gave you an examination last monday, then, this. Monday, i gave you the same examination, and the same examination the following monday. In fact, i am concerned with the examination"s reliability. It is because i don"t know if it is a valid measurement for your intelligence. 130-131) actually happened may be different from one person to another.
