Administration time and reliability in measurement
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For some research designs, one pays the participants by the amount of time they spend on the task (like regular work). For other designs where one does not, usually participants are able to drop out if one annoys them too much. In both cases it is important to use brief measures. Still, when one uses a briefer measurement, one usually loses some accuracy (i.e. get more measurement error). Since measurement error causes all kinds of
Administration time and reliability in measurement
Administration time and reliability in…
Administration time and reliability in measurement
For some research designs, one pays the participants by the amount of time they spend on the task (like regular work). For other designs where one does not, usually participants are able to drop out if one annoys them too much. In both cases it is important to use brief measures. Still, when one uses a briefer measurement, one usually loses some accuracy (i.e. get more measurement error). Since measurement error causes all kinds of