What Happens to the Size of Confidence Intervals as Reliability

question 10

Multiple Choice

What happens to the size of confidence intervals as reliability coefficients increase?

• A)They decrease.
• B)They increase.
• C)They remain the same.
• D)It is indeterminate - it depends on the construct being measured.

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