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1 How does a measurement’s reliability differ from validity?

2 What is the difference between construct validity and criterion validity?

3 What information does scale data (interval and ratio data) provide in addition to what an ordinal scale provides?

4 For each variable, identify the scale of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) and whether it is discrete or continuous:

5 When your “intelligence” is defined as your score on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, you are:testing the validity of this measure.testing the reliability of this measure.operationalizing the term intelligence.determining the correlation between two variables.

6 Which of the following BEST represents a nominal scale of measurement?scores on a personality measurethe number of inches of rain in Detroit on September 15, 2015letter grades in schoola person’s membership in one particular Greek organization

7 Which of the following is NOT a continuous variable?number of siblingstemperatureheighttime needed to solve a problem