A Researcher Is Interested in Conducting a Survey in Canada

question 5

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in conducting a survey in Canada and in Brazil, but she wants each survey to be in each country's native language. So she hires a graduate student from Brazil to translate the survey into Portuguese and hires another one to translate it back into English to ensure that the two surveys share the same meaning. What does using this technique, called back translation, help researchers to ensure?

• A) translational equivalence
• B) metric equivalence
• C) verbal communication
• D) verbal congruency

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Definitions:

Equivalent Unit Calculations

A method in cost accounting used to allocate costs to partially completed goods, converting them into the amount of finished goods units.

Manufacturing Costs

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Weighted Average Method

A method of calculating the average cost of inventory goods by weighting the cost of each item according to its proportion in the total inventory.

Conversion Costs

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