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Deontological and Teleological Ethical Theories

even if the consequences of an action are good, if the motives behind the action were wrong, it will still be wrong (Some fundamen...

Starbucks Ethics

company that supplies bottled water is one example. It is estimated by 2010 Ethos, a firm which had the finding of safe drinking w...

Opinions and Biases in Research

and the critique of knowledge. These may be framed as different forms of critique, but are often interdependent, as Gold (et al, 2...

Psychological Testing - How to Acquire Information

Additionally, within the realm of books written on the topic of psychological tests, it is considered particularly rich, and to ha...

Psychological Tests and Their Uses

its various manifestations, as well as touch upon its appropriateness and reliability as a precise tool Before going into the maj...

Psychological Tests and When to Use Them

applications of these tests that can be disruptive or harmful to the individuals involved. This paper will explore the appropriate...

The Construction of Psychological Tests

test development is the factor analysis method. In this method, one identifies the "dimensions underlying a large number of observ...

Correlation, ANOVA, and T-Tests

is 24 hours. Hypothesis testing will be highly useful for performing this comparison. The first step of statistical hypothesis te...

Paternity Testing - A Multidimensional Overview

a paternity test happening simply by blind chance is as low as .0001%. For this reason, paternity tests are considered scientifica...

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...

Demonstrating Pearson r Test

set of statements, with answers ranging from highly inaccurate to highly accurate, With seven potential answers the responses can ...

Organizations and Psychological Testing

integration, without the hire producing much value in exchange. For this reason, organizations often use psychological testing dur...

Intelligence Tests and the Subjectivity of Results

intelligence is not a singular definable trait, but that intelligence as a whole can only be understood and measured in specific c...

Hypothesis Testing and its Applications

is "statistically significant" or likely to occur by chance. For example, even if treatment A outperforms treatment B in the major...

Nonparametric Testing and ANOVA

that are certain to be useful in statistically assessing complex scenarios in which variance between more than two factors must be...

Personality Tests - Their Limited Value

tests in order to assess the potential compatibility of employees that they are considering hiring. However, there is little, if a...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Developing Psychological Assessments

insofar as Dr. Zak left the questionnaires at each residence and residents did or did not complete the form through their own voli...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

Testing Inventory and Cash Process in an Audit

a secure location, but observations may indicate this is not always the case. In addition to this observation, such as the scannin...

Use of Statistics

there are two degrees of freedom, so using the table below we can see we need to reject the null hypothesis, with an Alpha of 0.00...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Using a T-Test to Assess Data

The paper uses descriptive statistics and shows the use of hypothesis testing utilizing a two tailed t-test. The data provided ar...

WISC IV

The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...

Canadian Drug Testing in the Workplace

Employers in Canada face legislative restrictions concerning their abilities to test employees for drugs. This foundation level p...

Take Charge, Take the Test, A CDC Campaign

This research paper describes and evaluates the CDC's "Take Charge, Take the Test," which is a campaign targeted at African Americ...

Research Design in Standardized Testing

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. Program evaluation is used to examine the efficacy of standar...

Correlations, ANOVA, and T-Tests

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at various statistical tests of significance. T-tests, ANOVA, and correlational statis...

The SBQ-R and its Validity

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the SBQ-R psychological test. Drawing upon a review of literature, the validity of ...