As Concluded in Chapter 13,the Semantic Distinction Between Objective and Projective

question 108

Multiple Choice

As concluded in Chapter 13,the semantic distinction between objective and projective tests

• A) is meaningful, especially as it relates to the content of the items.
• B) should be abandoned because there is really no difference between them.
• C) is only meaningful to the extent that each relies heavily on self-report.
• D) has meaning insofar as the mechanisms typically used for scoring.

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Definitions:

Sample Proportion

The ratio or fraction of sample observations that belong to a particular category or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A parameter for evaluating the breadth of dispersion or difference in a set of figures.

Sample Proportion

The fraction of items in a sample meeting a certain criterion, representing a subset of the population fraction with that characteristic.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample set of numbers, calculated by adding up all the observations and dividing by the number of observations.