Chapter 10 quiz

The questionnaire item "Did you file federal and state income tax reports last year?" with a response set of yes, no, can't remember, other, is an example of:

a double-barreled question

which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. Closed-ended questions should limit respondents to three or four choices

The questionnaire items "Which is not a serious problem in the U.S. today, anomie or the socialization of the young?" violates which of the following guidelines?

avoid negative items

Asking respondents if they have any children before asking them about the ages of their children is an example of:

contingency question

The following answer categories about ethnicity are exhaustive: Caucasian ----- African American -----Hispanic

false

When the variable "marital status" is classified as never married, currently married, or currently married but separated, this variable has the important quality/qualities of being:

mutually exclusive

Professor Duncan administered a questionnaire containing the following items: Please tell me how you feel about your social worker on the following three items: Valuable----------Worthless Clean-------------Dirty Active------------Passive

semantic differential scale

The length of a question can influence how effectively the respondent will answer.

true

which of the following statements is/are true about questionnaires?

Because it is virtually impossible to avoid some mistakes in wording, questionnaires should be pretested in a dry run

Which of the following statements is/are true about constructing qualitative measures?

Interviews can range from completely unstructured, informal conversational interviews that use no measurement instruments to highly structured, standardized interviews in which interviewers must ask questions in the exact order and with the exact wording in which they are written out in advance.