WGU C207 – SELF-ASSESSMENTS

1. IF you were to take your temperature 10 times in a row using the same thermometer and got the same result every time, you could say that the thermometer is _______. a. Valid b. Reliable c. Accurate d. Measurable 2. According to the 2000 census the average number of people in a family in the US was 3.17. Since it isn't possible to have .17 of a person, you would use a _________ data point to describe the number of people in your family. a. Continuous b. Discrete c. Valid d. Ordinal 3. You survey 100 New Yorkers about their preference for New York style or Chicago style pizza. What would be wrong with this? a. You would encounter information bias b. You would encounter gender bias c. You would encounter random error d. You would encounter measurement bias