What Is a Strategy for Avoiding Problems with the Reference-Group

question 27

Multiple Choice

What is a strategy for avoiding problems with the reference-group effect?

• A)standardizing people's responses
• B)combining the cultures' respective reference groups
• C)reverse-scoring half of the items
• D)counterbalancing the order of the items
• E)using concrete response options

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of values, indicating how much variation there is from the average (mean).

Mound-Shaped

Refers to a graphical representation of data characterized by a symmetric, bell-shaped curve typical of a normal distribution.

25th Percentile

Refers to the value below which 25% of the data in a data set is found.

Ascending Order

Arranging data points or numbers from the smallest to the largest.