Freda Wants to Develop a Measure of Support for the Legalization

question 43

Multiple Choice

Freda wants to develop a measure of support for the legalization of marijuana such that she can assign scores to patterns of responses,such that some items reflect a relatively weak degree of the variable while others reflect something stronger.Which one of the following should she use?

• A)index
• B)scale
• C)reliability
• D)validity
• E)nominal scale

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