Chapter 6 Quiz

What is an index?

Type of composite measure that summarizes and rank-orders several specific observations and represents some more-general dimension

What is a scale?

Type of composite measure composed of several items that have a logical or empirical structure among them.

Which is not one of the four main steps to index construction?

Selecting possible items

Examining their empirical relationships

Scoring

Revoking

What is a bivariate relationship?

A relationship between two variables

Whether or not the US should contribute military personnel to the U.N.

A strong relationship that may indicate that two items measure the same thing

All of the above.

What is a multivariate relationship?

A relationship between more than two variables

A relationship between two variables

The status of one variable

None of the above.

What is index scoring?

Creating a single composite measure out of the several items

Which of the following is a method for validating an index?

Item analysis

External validation

Bad index vs. Bad validators

All of the above

External Validation

The process of testing the validity of a measure by examining its relationship to other, presumed indicators of the same variable

What is the Bogardus Social Distance Scale?

A measurement technique for determining the willingness of people to participate in social relations

Varying degrees of closeness with other kinds of people

Efficient technique in that one can summarize several discrete answers without losing any of the original details of the data

All of the above.

Thurstone Scale

Type of composite measure constructed in accord with the weights assigned by "judges" to various indicators of some variables

Likert Scale

Type of composite measure developed in an attempt to improve the levels of measurement in social research through the use of standardized response categories in survey questionnaires, to determine the relative intensity of different items.

Semantic Differential

A questionnaire format in which the respondent is asked to rate something in terms of two, opposite adjectives using qualifiers much as "very", "somewhat", "neither", etc. To bridge the distance between the two opposites.

Guttman Scale

Type of composite measure used to summarize several discrete observations and to represent some more-general variable

Typology

The classification of observations in terms of their attributes on two or more variables

Whenever the typology is used as the _________, there will probably not be a problem. It is extremely difficult to analyze a typology as a _______ however.

Dependent variable; independent variable

Independent variable; dependent variable

None of the above.

What are commonalities of scales and indexes?

Both are ordinal measures of variables

Both rank-order the units of analysis by specific variables

Both are composite units of measure

All of the above.

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