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Title: Validity is more difficult to achieve than reliability. Why? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: brownuser on Feb 19, 2018
Validity is more difficult to achieve than reliability. Why?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



Empirical social research
 
  A) has no real world application.
  B) generates results stated as fixed absolutes.
  C) is an ongoing process of accumulating information.
  D) is the same as critical thinking.



The Tuskegee syphilis study is one of the most outrageous instances of a disregard of basic ethical principles in research with humans in the United States.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false



Special populations, also called vulnerable populations, include people who may not be fully capable of giving consent freely. Which of the following is NOT a special population?
 
  A) the homeless B) prisoners
  C) students D) women with red hair



Applied researchers rarely
 
  A) conduct evaluations of data.
  B) are recognized as leaders in the field of social research.
  C) find anything of significance.
  D) worry about building, testing, or connecting findings to a larger theory.


Title: Validity is more difficult to achieve than reliability. Why? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: ajbatiste on Feb 19, 2018
Validity links invisible, abstract ideas with specific empirical observations. A gap

always exists between mental images about the world and the concrete reality.

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Title: Validity is more difficult to achieve than reliability. Why? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: brownuser on Feb 19, 2018
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