A researcher has designed a study to look at the relationship between self-esteem and anxiety. However, when she examines the data, she notices that no one in the study had low self-esteem. What problem is she experiencing? A.) Directionality b.) restriction of range c.) invalid measurement
A researcher has designed a study to look at the relationship between self-esteem and anxiety. However, when she examines the data, she notices that no one in the study had low self-esteem. What problem is she experiencing?
A.) Directionality
b.) restriction of
c.) invalid measurement
While designing a study, we can face many types of problems. It is because of the relationship between the given samples are not always perfect.
Here, the researcher wants to study the relationship between self-esteem and anxiety and notices that no one had low self-esteem.
In case of restriction of range the observed sample data are not available across the entire range. When there is not enough variation in the given samples the co-relation becomes lower which causes the restriction of range problem. So, here Option-b) is correct.
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