A Measure Is Unreliable If It Yields Different Results When

question 67

True/False

A measure is unreliable if it yields different results when it is used to measure different things.

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Definitions:

Marginal Product of Labor

The additional output produced as a result of employing one more unit of labor.

Economies of Scale

The cost advantages that a business obtains due to expansion, where the average cost per unit of output decreases with increasing scale.

Diseconomies of Scale

The situation where long-run average costs start to increase as the scale of operation grows beyond a certain point, leading to increased per-unit costs.

Diminishing Returns

A principle in economics indicating that adding more of one factor of production, while holding others constant, will at some point yield lower incremental per-unit returns.