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What does "complex wording" refer to?
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It just refers to a survey question that involves too many complicated words -- will throw off reader/subject
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What is a response set?
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"yea-saying" or "nay-saying" -- people that just say yes to everything
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What is reverse coding?
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Changing the expected answer to a question to the opposite side of the spectrum to detect response sets
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When would it be good to use open-ended questions?
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When you're having a hard time operationalizing the definition of a variable
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What is a Chi-Square test?
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It looks to see if two categorical variables are related
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What is a sampling error?
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It's any error that is due to variance in your sampled group of people
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What is a type 1 error?
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It's the possibility of rejecting the null hypothesis, when the null is actually true.
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What's a type 2 error?
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It's the possibility of failing to reject the null hypothesis.
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What is the power of a test?
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1 - (beta)
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What are selection differences?
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This is a threat to internal validity that arises when the people selected to be in the conditions might differ in some systematic way.
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What is a solomon four-group design?
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It's a design where half the participants get the posttest, and the other half get both pretest and posttest.
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