Which of the Following Statements Would Be Consistent with the Nonpositivist

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements would be consistent with the nonpositivist critique of measurement

• A)The social sciences should strive to quantify all measurement.
• B)Social science measurement often involves the construction of something that we believe exists in the world.
• C)All the phenomena that social scientists measure exist objectively in the world and are discovered by our measuring devices.
• D)While interval and ratio variables can be objectively measured, nominal and ordinal measures cannot.

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