When One Culture Uses the Extremes of a Scale and Another

question 31

Multiple Choice

When one culture uses the extremes of a scale and another culture does not, we might equate the highest score on a scale in one culture with the second-highest score on the scale in the second culture. This may be done because we are seeking

• A) functional equivalence.
• B) conceptual equivalence.
• C) linguistic equivalence.
• D) metric equivalence.

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