URSI 403--Pretest


Please use the following form to answer 15 questions about common terms used in social science research. This is a pretest. Its purpose is to help me (and you) gauge what you (singly and as a group) already know and what might need particular attention. Your performance on this test will not affect your final grade--but your performance will be evaluated and the results returned to you.

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1. What are the elements of a "rational decision-making model"?

2. What is the difference between an "axiom" and a "law"?

3. What is the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law?

4. What is the difference between induction and deduction?

5. What are the two methods by which science arrives at "truth"?

6. What are the elements of a "classical experiment"?

7. What is randomization, and why is it used in experimental design?

8. What is a "sample" and a "population"?

9. What is a "t-test"?

10. What are the measures of the central tendency of a distribution?

11. What are nonparametric statistics?

12. What is the "General Linear Model"?

13. What is the difference between reliabiilty and validity?

14. What does "statistical significance" signify?

15. What is a "z-score"?


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