A Variable Shows Reliability When

question 7

Multiple Choice

A variable shows reliability when

• A) enough experimenters decide to use it in their research.
• B) it is accepted in the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
• C) other researchers demonstrate that it does measure what it is supposed to measure.
• D) similar results are obtained each time it is measured.

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Definitions:

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the total number of values.

Degrees of Freedom

The count of separate values or quantities that a statistical distribution can possess.

Distribution

In statistics, it describes the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, particularly the way that values of a variable or dataset are spread or dispersed.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average squared deviation from the mean.