NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

SOCIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The question of whether the research has uncovered the truth about social life and is accurate in it’s findings is known as what?
A
Reliability
B
Certainty
C
Validity
D
Accuracy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hence the findings by social science researchers are relevant to the everyday life of people in natural settings is called ecological validity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reliability can be estimated by comparing different versions of the same measurement. Validity is harder to assess, but it can be estimated by comparing the results to other relevant data or theory. Methods of estimating reliability and validity are usually split up into different types.

Detailed explanation-3: -Probably the most obvious example of this is the British Crime Survey as a test of the ‘validity’ of Police Crime Statistics’. The BCS shows us that different crimes, as measured by PCR have different levels of construct validity – Vehicle Theft is relatively high, vandalism is relatively low, for example.

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