Dante Used a Public Scale for an Experiment in His

question 67

Multiple Choice

Dante used a public scale for an experiment in his sociology class to examine satisfaction with community resources. Dante realized that some of the questions are written inversely. He is trying to determine a way to sum participants' responses on the scale so that a higher number accurately reflects a higher degree of satisfaction with community resources. Dante should use:

• A) reverse-coding.
• B) acquiescent response set.
• C) dummy coding.
• D) distractor items.

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Definitions:

Light Energy

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