Accuracy Is One of the Criteria to Evaluate Secondary Data

question 41

Multiple Choice

Accuracy is one of the criteria to evaluate secondary data. While using this criterion,

• A)researchers need not worry about what is actually measured.
• B)the researcher must evaluate the overall procedure for collecting the data.
• C)researchers must keep in mind that the data were collected to answer a different set of research questions than the ones at hand.
• D)the data must be carefully evaluated on how it relates to the current research objective.
• E)the researcher must determine the underlying motivation or hidden agenda, if any.

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Definitions:

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias describes the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.

Availability Heuristic

This is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representativeness Bias

A cognitive bias where individuals judge the probability of an event by how much it resembles their existing stereotypes or expectations, rather than based on actual statistical evidence.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

A belief or expectation that an individual holds that comes true because he or she acts in ways that support or lead to its fulfilment.