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What do Valid and Reliable Mean

consideration. Researchers will use repeat sample groups to reduce the possibility of an abnormal group skewing the results. If ...

What Threatens Research Validity

they truly representative of the population being studied? Experimental mortality is another threat and addresses how many partici...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

An Argument Against Zero Tolerance

The concept of zero tolerance is becoming more and more...

Psychological Tests - Their Validity and Usage

the MMPI uses this scale, an individuals responses are judged across five key dimensions that correspond to aspects of personality...

Darwin On Trial by Philip Johnson

sudden creation, rather than creation by progressive development" (Johnson 22). In this introductory chapter, Johnson presents a...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

I Have a Dream

that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segreg...

Online Health Information: Concerns of Validity

As far back as 1996, it had become clear that while the internet could offer up some kind of information on just about every topic...

RESEARCH METHOD QUESTIONS

Following are general answers to questions concerning ethics in research. A researcher tells a potential respondent that ...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Miranda Laws - When Are They Essential?

of Rights is to provide some assurance for the proper administration of justice within the judicial system. Part of this framework...

ASSESSMENT CENTERS, MANGEMENT SELECTION AND VALIDITY

But like many selection and observation tools, assessment centers arent without their drawbacks. For one thing, an assessment cent...

Arguments Against Internet Censorship

long as books have been published, they have been subject to editorial censorship, and even outright banning. As long as painters ...

Performance and Intelligence Tests

researcher has selected two test from the book. The first is an intelligence test known as the ACER Test of Reasoning Ability, and...

Validity and Reliablity of Tests

that a test of some sort actually measures what it purports to measure. Tests of any kind must have both reliability and validity....

Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...

Issues in Students Research

on every 5th page, starting at page 40 of the book, this took away any potential for the researcher to try and use personal judgem...

Agreement With Tannen's Article "Sex, Lies And Conversation"

create and maintain friendships by exchanging secrets; similarly, women regard conversation as the cornerstone of friendship...Bon...

Psychology: Informal Practice To Bona Fide Science

importance of Lightner Witmer, considered to be the first patient of psychological treatment. As the discipline continued forward...

Basic Assessment System For Children, Second Edition

same authors (Australian Council for Educational Research, 2008; Rush, First and Blacker, 2007). The second edition of the BASC ex...

Online Research Review

of the study, however, one purpose illustrated in the questions was the frequency with which customers used the "Wish list". There...

"To Kill A Mockingbird" - Accuracy Of Criminal Justice Activities

how it was back in the early part of the century. In the 1930s, the criminal justice system had a veritable open door policy when...

Health and Nursing Article Reviewed

impact the treatment process. Research underscores the connection between a "fighting" attitude and the capacity of individuals t...

Truth of Psychoanalytic Claims Assessment

This paper assesses the scientific investigative validity of psychoanalysis in ten pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

OPEC, Iran, and Saudi Arabia

In twelve pages this paper discusses the validity of OPEC's assessment of 'price hawk' Iran and 'price dove' Saudi Arabia. Nine s...

Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson

in Eriksons stages. Each has two names: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame; Initiative vs. Guilt; Industry vs. Inferiority; Id...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

Personal Testimony Reliability of Holocaust Survivors and Their Usefulness

Holocaust clearly and painfully etched in everyones mind so as not to forget the hideous events of such an inhumane period. The m...

Business Research Formulation

In five pages this paper examines how a business research can confront and surmount various problems such as bias, causality, obje...