Author Question: Some measures of behavior across different cultural or ethnic groups may not show high levels of ... (Read 197 times)

olgavictoria · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

Some measures of behavior across different cultural or ethnic groups may not show high levels of construct validity because

a. research has revealed that most behaviors tend to change across cultures.
b. the means of categorizing people in some research involves nonscientific criteria.
c. the measurements generally show low levels of internal validity but high levels of external validity.
d. researchers have discovered that few measurements across cultures show high levels of reliability, so validity levels are lower.

Question 2

Inferential statistics such as t-tests are used to test

a. the likelihood of a Type II error
b. pretests
c. directional, but not nondirectional hypotheses
d. differences between condition means
e. randomization