A Researcher Wants to Measure Attitudes Towards Gun Control by Asking

question 29

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to measure attitudes towards gun control by asking people whether they would be worried about traveling to areas where there are known to be a lot of illegal guns. Critics argue that the conceptualization does not really look as though it is related to attitudes about gun control, in other words, that it lacks ____ validity.

• A) face
• B) construct
• C) convergent
• D) criterion-related

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