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Items on a questionnaire that measure the behavior you wish to predict are .
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The first step in designing a questionnaire is to .
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With a(n) item, respondents answer questions in their own words.
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A(n) is a variant of a restricted item on which a graded set of responses is provided.
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According to the text, related items should be placed together on a questionnaire. This is known as .
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According to Dillman (2000) the two “languages” of a questionnaire are and .
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One of the most effective methods for combatting nonresponse bias is to .
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The new technology know as has largely replaced live interviewers in telephone surveys.
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A type of interview in which you ask specific questions in a specified order is a(n) interview.
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With reliability, you administer your questionnaire twice to the same participants.
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reliability is a method of establishing reliability in which you divide your questionnaire into two parts and correlate the items from the two parts.
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If you were to establish validity by determining whether the results of your questionnaire correlate well with another established questionnaire, you would be using to establish validity.
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According to the text, the Literary Digest poll failed because .
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Randomly selecting a certain number of individuals from a population is the definition for .
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A variant of simple random sampling that can be used when conducting a telephone survey is .
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To combat the problem of minority groups being overrepresented in a stratified sampling scheme, you can use .
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is a sampling technique that involves selecting every kth participant after a random start.
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A good sampling technique to use when you have several large naturally occurring groups (for example, school districts) that could be included in your sample is .
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A(n) includes enough participants to ensure a valid survey, and no more.
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Because of , you can never be sure that the characteristics of your sample exactly match those of the population.







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