Errors in Instrument Reliability

question 57

Multiple Choice

Errors in instrument reliability

• A) do not effect interrelatedness of variables.
• B) decrease the number of significant relationships found.
• C) increase the number of significant relationships found.
• D) may either increase of decrease the number of relationships between variables.

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