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Why are social psychologists concerned with the issue of interjudge reliability?
 
  a. Without it, there is no hope of reforming the legal system.
  b. Independent agreement reduces the possibility of bias or distortion.
  c. Coding criteria must be objective and determined before observation begins.
  d. Interjudge reliability makes causal explanations possible in archival research.

Question 2

Patricia and John have each independently recorded the number of times the words right and responsibility appeared in a civics textbook.
 
  They compared their counts, and found that of the thousands of references to rights and responsibilities, they only disagreed by two occurrences. This example illustrates high
 
   a. interjudge reliability.
   b. internal validity.
   c. external validity.
   d. internal reliability.



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Answer: B

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Answer: A





 

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