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Organizing Data and Analyzing Results in Research MCQ

1. Which computer program takes the text you have and creates word clouds?

Wordle

Easy Chi Square calculator

Social Science Statistics

Graphpad

Answer

Correct Answer: Wordle

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2. If you go fishing, make sure you clearly present these analyses as post ho

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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3. Which is safer?

Recode into Same Variables

Recode into Different Variables

Labeling only those variables involved in analyses

Reversing items after calculating Cronbach’s alpha

Answer

Correct Answer: Recode into Different Variables

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4. Going fishing is also called data dredging.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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5. A concern with deleting outliers is that the researcher might be doing so to make it more likely to find statistically significant results. This is called?

Opportunistic bias

Optimism

Elimination observations

Transparency

Answer

Correct Answer: Opportunistic bias

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6. Imputation involves replacing missing values with substitute values.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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7. What is the term for deleting a case completely if any data are missing?

Listwise deletion

Pairwise deletion

Attrition

Non-response rate

Answer

Correct Answer: Listwise deletion

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8. The compute function should come before calculation of Cronbach’s alph

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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9. An advantage of entering the score for each item on a scale is the ability to calculate Cronbach’s alph

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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10. What is the term for labels of data that give information about the content of the question?

Transparent

Non-transparent

Numeric

String

Answer

Correct Answer: Transparent

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11. String variables results from answers given in a text box.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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12. Which two principles are key in deciding what values to assign to data?

Logic and consecutive sequence

Simplicity and complexity

Specificity and linearity

Number and label

Answer

Correct Answer: Logic and consecutive sequence

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13. When you set up a data file, the distinction between a variable and level is critical.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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14. What is the term for a computer program which allows researchers to distribute the different conditions across participants?

Randomizer function

SPSS

PSYCInfo

Amazon MTurk

Answer

Correct Answer: Randomizer function

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15. Portability refers to the ability of researchers to relocate in order to access different participant groups.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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16. Program for generating word clouds from text that show the frequency with which certain words appear; useful in presentations is Wordle™

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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17. SPSS Statistics® command in which the analysis is restricted to a subset of the sample (e.g., first year students) is select cases function

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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18. In SPSS Statistics®, refers to the evaluation of data to assess internal consistency, such as Cronbach’s alpha is reliability analysis

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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19. SPSS Statistics® command in which numerical values are recorded into a new variable

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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20. SPSS Statistics® command in which numerical values are recorded into the existing variable

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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21. Function in SPSS Statistics® that allows you to reconfigure data, for example, computing a new variable or recoding a variable is transform

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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22. In research, the probability value indicating the likelihood that the finding occurred by chance, usually set at .05 is significant level

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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23. Idea that data lose some of their specificity (e.g., through rounding) is called

Harking

P- Hacking

Coarsened data

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Coarsened data

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24. Processes such as continuing to test data or conducting post hoc analyses to produce significant results is called

Harking

P- Hacking

Coarsened data

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: P- Hacking

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25. Hypothesizing after results are known (Kerr, 1998) is called

Harking

P- Hacking

Coarsened data

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Harking

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26. Exploration of large sets of data to discover statistically significant patterns not originally hypothesized is data dredging

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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27. Term that describes exploring your data post hoc for significant findings is going fishing

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. Pursuing data analysis in multiple ways that increases the chances of finding significant results is opportunistic bias

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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29. Statistical presentation of measures of central tendency and dispersion that characterize a set of data

Descriptives

Imputation

Statistical

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Descriptives

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30. Process of replacing missing values with substitutes (e.g., sample means) is called

Descriptives

Imputation

Statistical

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Imputation

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31. Approach to handling missing data in which a participant is dropped on analyses for only the missing variable(s) for that analysis, not altogether is ____Deletion

Listwise

Pairwise

Linewise

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Pairwise

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32. When there are missing data, the elimination of the complete case if any data are missing is ____ deletion

Listwise

Pairwise

Linewise

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Listwise

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33. When there are missing data, the elimination of the complete case if any data are missing is ____ deletion

Listwise

Pairwise

Linewise

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Listwise

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34. Cloud-based file sharing system is Dropbox®

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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35. Tool in SPSS Statistics® that allows you to create new variables through arithmetic operations is ____ function

Modern

Compute

Correct

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Compute

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36. Data type in SPSS Statistics® on which no numerical analyses can be performed is string variable type

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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37. In SPSS Statistics®, a data type that permits numerical analysis is numerical data type

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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38. View in SPSS Statistics® in which the variables and their characteristics (e.g., name, data type, and length) are found is variable view

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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39. In SPSS Statistics®, view of the data by cases (rows) and columns (variables) is data view

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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