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c) Analysing existing data that has been collected by another person or organization
4.The large samples used in national social surveys enable new researchers to:
7.Studying the official crime rate may provide unreliable data because:
c) Police use their discretion to investigate some crimes and not others
a) The assumption that secondary data analysis can be carried out at home
c) The error of making inferences about individual behaviour from aggregate data
a) The distance between categories is equal across the range of interval/ratio data
d) Ordinal variables have a fixed zero point, whereas interval/ratio variables do not
3.What is an outlier?
d) It compares the results you might get from various statistical tests
5.If there were a perfect positive correlation between two interval/ratio variables, the Pearson's r test
would give a correlation coefficient of:
a) - 0.328
b) +1
c) +0.328
d) - 1
6.What is the name of the test that is used to assess the relationship between two ordinal variables?
a) Spearman's rho
b) Phi
c) Cramer's V
d) Chi square
c) A relationship that appears to be true because each variable is related to a third one
9.A test of statistical significance indicates how confident the researcher is about:
a) Type I error
b) Type II error