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Reliability and Validity
INTRODUCTION Sociologist James A. Quinn states that the tasks of scientific method are related directly or indirectly to the study of similarities of various kinds of objects or events. One of the tasks of scientific method is that of classifying objects or events into categories and of describing the similar characteristics of members of each type. A second task is that of comparing variations in two or more characteristics of the members of a category. Indeed, it is the discovery, formulation, and testing of generalizations about the relations among selected variables that constitute the central task of scientific method. Fundamental to the performance of these tasks is a system of measurement.
instruments, for example, survey questionnaire and official records, on the same sample, which is known as multiple-forms reliability. 3. Homogeneity (Internal Consistency) We have three ways to check the internal consistency of the index.
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