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1. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: The administration´s policies are dangerous and not well thought out? Such a question is an example of a
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a. double-barreled question
b. leading question
2. Leading questions may lead participants to obey demand characteristics whereas loaded questions may promote social desirability bias.
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a. True
b. False
3. Which of the following would be the best advice for improving the quality of your questions?
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a. Pretest your questions
b. Use more response options so that you can detect subtle differences between participants
4. Which of the following would be the best advice for improving the quality of your questions?
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a. Use negations ("no" and "not") to reduce response biases
b. Avoid big words
5. Demographic questions should be placed
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a. First
b. Last
6. Quota sampling usually results in a more representative sample than random sampling.
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a. True
b. False
7. With smaller samples, proportionate stratified random sampling tends to generate more representative samples than random sampling.
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a. True
b. False
8. Nonresponse bias would probably be a bigger problem in
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a. A mail survey
b. A telephone survey
9. Informed consent, debriefing, and maintaining confidentiality are all important issues that you must attend to if you do survey research.
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a. True
b. False
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