Imagine You Created a Survey to Examine Binge Drinking on Your

question 28

Essay

Imagine you created a survey to examine binge drinking on your campus. You asked respondents directly if they engaged in binge drinking. Once you started analyzing the results you realized what you were attempting to measure was not reflected in the question you asked. Which type of validity was not achieved in your study and why? Why is achieving this validity important? What question could you ask instead and what would rules would you use to say that a person engaged in binge drinking?

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Definitions:

Codon

A sequence of three nucleotides in mRNA that specifies a particular amino acid or termination signal in the synthesis of proteins.

Amino Acid Coding

Amino acid coding involves the use of codons in mRNA to specify which amino acids will be added during protein synthesis.

MRNA

Messenger RNA, a single-stranded RNA molecule that is complementary to one of the DNA strands of a gene and is responsible for carrying genetic information from DNA to the ribosome where proteins are synthesized.

Codons

Sequences of three nucleotides in mRNA that specify the addition of a specific amino acid to a polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.