M1-2: Quiz (Review) Flashcards
In most businesses and organizations, employees must be ranked according to performance in order to identify those who qualify for promotion. This ranking can be classified as:
Ordinal
It is one of the goals of science where it provides answers to questions about why people react to certain stimuli in certain ways, how various factors impact personalities and mental health, and so on.
Explanation
In order to save time and money, researchers collect data by:
The use of samples
After you asked one participant to answer the test you created, you asked the participant about others like him/her who could possible answer your test. You were then referred to people whom the participant knows are capable of answering your test. This sampling method is called:
Snowball sampling
The sportswriter computes for the average point per game of players to determine the MVP of the Season.
Descriptive statistics
A survey firm determines if the proportion of people who support the Covid-19 vaccine bill is significantly higher than the proportion of people who oppose it.
Inferential statistics
In psychological statistics, the professor determines if there is a significant difference between the performance of students in the AM class and the students in the PM class.
Inferential statistics
Students are curious so they survey ABC university College of Arts and Sciences regarding who is/are the most likable professor.
Descriptive statistics
Mayor Jimboy wants to know the opinions of voters in Manila about legalizing divorce.
Descriptive statistics
What type of scale is the height of a person?
Ratio
The methods used to show the essential characteristics of data are called:
Descriptive
What type of scale is the method of teaching (discussion, recitation)?
Nominal
A discussion at the conclusion of a research study where all participants should be informed about the aims of the study and any minor deception should be revealed. Participants should be returned to their original psychological and physiological states, and they should be offered access to the results of the study should they want it.
Debriefing
Inferential statistics refer to:
The confidence with which we can generalize from samples
Temperature is most likely a/an _____ data.
interval
Inferential statistics allow us to infer something about the _____based on the ______.
population; sample
It is a sampling issue that selects cases from a population in a manner that ensures each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected into a sample.
Random Sampling
Which division of statistics is based on facts?
Descriptive
A major difference between interval and ratio scales is that interval scales don’t have:
Absolute zero
It is given to individuals before they participate in a research study to inform them of the general nature of the study and to obtain their consent to participate in the study.
Informed consent
When we accept what a respected or famous person tells us, we are gaining knowledge via:
Authority
It is a brief description of the entire paper that typically discusses each section of the paper.
Abstract
What type of scale is the birth order?
Ordinal
Which division of statistics is based on assumptions?
Inferential
Tables and diagrams:
Should be effective forms of communication
