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rl · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A researcher finds that when people report their sexual activity on a mailed questionnaire, they indicate higher levels of bizarre fantasies than when they are questioned face to face. This indicates that these methods of measuring sexual activity ____.

a. have high base rates
b. are high in validity
c. are negatively correlated
d. have low reliability

Question 2

Dr. Gonzalez devised a new scale to measure depressive symptoms of Hispanic females. To be sure that his test is actually measuring depressive symptoms, he will have his test group respond to his new instrument and the Beck Depression Inventory, as well as completing a social desirability scale, which should be unrelated to depression. Dr. Gonzalez is ____.

a. checking the validity of his measure of depressive symptoms
b. checking the reliability of his measure of depressive symptoms
c. assessing the honesty of his participants
d. pursuing idiographic research