Author Question: What is wrong with this question? What is your annual income? 10,000-25,000 ... (Read 53 times)

charchew · **on:** Jun 29, 2018

What is wrong with this question?

What is your annual income?
____ 10,000-25,000
____ 25,000-40,000
____ 40,000-55,000
____ 55,000-70,000
a. The categories are not of equal ranges.
b. The alternatives are not realistic.
c. The categories are not mutually exclusive.
d. The categories are too broad.
e. The categories are too narrow.

Question 2

Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Multiple-choice questions tend to bias results by the order in which the alternatives are given.
b. An important advantage of open-ended questions is that respondents may answer them in their own words and are not limited to a set of alternative answers.
c. Because respondents are able to better clarify their answers with open-ended questions than with other types of questions, the results can be more easily coded by the researcher.
d. Both b and c.
e. a, b, and c.