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Tai Lee has created a scale to measure how sexually promiscuous her subjects are

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Question

Tai Lee has created a scale to measure how sexually promiscuous her subjects are. After testing out the scale she has found that the scale gives consistent and similar results for each research subject, but that the questions in the scale do not really seem to measure how sexually promiscuous people are. Tai Lee likely has a problem with ___________________ in her scale.

Validity

Sampling

Operationalization

Viability

Reliability

Tai Lee has created a scale to measure how sexually promiscuous her subjects are. After testing out the scale she has found that the scale gives consistent and similar results for each research subject, but that the questions in the scale do not really seem to measure how sexually promiscuous people are. Tai Lee likely has a problem with ___________________ in her scale.

Answers: a.

Validity

b.

Sampling

c.

Operationalization

d.

Viability

e.

Reliability

Explanation / Answer

Answer: a.Validity (Validity refers to the degree to which a test truly measures what it intended to measure. )