Which of these "ways of knowing" obstructs knowledge by refusing to be wrong?

Which of these was not given as an advantage for science as a way of knowing?

Science offers total protection against the errors non-scientists commit in casual injury.

With which of thes eontological approaches are scientists often accuse of being aligned?

Which of thes eontological appraoches does the instructor say science employs?

Which of these barriers to knowledge can be overcome somewhat by using samples and replication?

According to the wheel of science, science is primarily...

The statement "Wealthy countries should give aid to poorer countries" is a...

Which of the following did the instructor present as the most important criteria of "good theory"?

Idiographic explanations seek to explain things "economically" using as few factors as possible.

According to the instructor, which of these is not a unique purpose of sociological research?

Which of the following ought (according to the instructor) to occur before operationalization?

The unit of analysis and the unit of observation need to be the same thing.

Unlike operations, concepts are...

Compared to qualitative data, quantitative data are...

Codes, memos, and concept mapping are...

Which of the following is not a longitudinal design?

If accuracy has three parts, which of these is not one of them?

Which of the following is a weakness of qualitative analysis?

Which method of checking reliability requires some kind of longitudinal study?

Which type of validity depends on a relationship among variables?

What kind of data entry is most likely to be used to analyze responses to questions on this exam?

Which of the following is not true about coding of data?

Which of these internal threats to validity does not result from interaction between researcher and subjects?

Conceptualization is the process of specifying how we observe something whose abstract meaning we've already identified.

It is acceptable to use shorthands, idioms, slang, even cliches as part of conceptualization.

What of the following is not an advantage of using indices?

When a researcher is selecting items for an index, which of the following should be kept in mind?

To consider an index undimensional, its component items indicate only one underlying factor.

Which of the following do indices and scales have in common?

Consider a questionnaire item which asks, "How do you feel about your instructor's leadership style on the following two items" and respondents to choose between "valuable" and "worthless", as well as between "easy" and "demanding". Which kind of scale would involve that item?

Which of these use judges or evaluators in their construction?

If you used the camppus telephone directory to sample students, those listed in it would be...

To study a fairly rare characteristic or behavior, which kind of sample are you more likely to use?

If the registrar reports that 10% of the student body is transfer students, and I instruct you to conduct 8 interviews with transfer students and 72 interviews with students who are not transfer students, what sampling method have I required of you and your project?

The statistical computations involved in the most commonly used test statistics assume:

Non-probability sampling...

Random selection of elements in a sample can be accomplished by use of:

For which situation is cluster sampling most appropriate and efficient?

What of the following is correct abut strata and clusters?

If a researcher examines newspaper editiorials from major US cities that dealt with the topic of grade inflation, the unit of observation would be:

Which is correct?

Bonus: Which theorist offers a strategy which has no unit of analysis?