To Ensure That Participants Are Responding Honestly and Consistently, Survey

question 212

Multiple Choice

To ensure that participants are responding honestly and consistently, survey researchers:

• A)usually withhold payment for participating in the survey until the person's answers have been independently checked and verified.
• B)almost always interview the participants on two separate occasions using two different interviewers.
• C)sometimes ask the same basic question at different points in the interview in different ways.
• D)routinely check the participant's responses with the spouse or a friend of the participant.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A type of hypothesis used in statistics that proposes that no significant difference exists in a set of given observations.

Fair Die

A die that has an equal probability of landing on any one of its faces when thrown.

Loaded Die

Refers to a die that has been tampered with to make certain outcomes more probable than others.

Null Hypothesis

An initial statement that there is no effect or no difference and that any observed variation is due to chance, used as a starting point for statistical testing.