When Surveys Are Used, Participants Are Often Asked to Use

question 8

Multiple Choice

When surveys are used, participants are often asked to use a response scale or response category e.g., often, sometimes, not very often, never) that matches how they feel about a behavior or how likely they are to exhibit the behavior. This is called:

• A) a closed ended response scale
• B) an open ended response scale
• C) an ambiguous response scale
• D) a behavior response scale

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Definitions:

Prior Probabilities

The probabilities that are assigned to events or hypotheses before any relevant evidence is taken into account, used in Bayesian analysis.

Likelihood Probabilities

Measures of how probable different outcomes are, given a specific set of observed data, in statistical analysis.

Joint Probabilities

The likelihood of two or more events happening at the same time.

Marginal Probabilities

The probability distribution of the random variables individually, without regard to any possible correlations between them.