If median 4400, MD = 5714 co-efficient of mean deviation is
A. 0.054
B. 0.123
C. 0.027
D. 0.045
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A set of techniques used to measure attractions and repulsions during inter-personal relations in quantitative and diagrammatic terms is known as
A. Sociometry
B. Social survey
C. Quantitative method
D. Social statistics
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The most important criterion of a good sample is its
A. Small size
B. Large size
C. Representativeness
D. Ambiguity
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The nature of relationship is studied through
A. Correlation
B. Regression
C. Progression
D. None of these
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Which of the following type of research hypothesis is a pre-requisites?
A. Biographical study
B. Experimental study
C. Interpretative research
D. Critical research
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Statistical observations arranged in chronological order is called
A. Regression
B. Time services
C. Progression
D. None of these
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Objectivity means
A. Absence of personal values
B. Lack of personal values and bias in one's work
C. Using scientific method of study
D. Full of personal value
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Which one of the following methods is known as probability sampling?
A. A sample selected by Tippets numbers from the given totality
B. A sample selected from those who were available
C. A sample selected considering the purpose of research
D. A sample selected by considering the various categories of respondents
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The standard deviation of sampling distribution is called . . . . . . . .
A. Standard error
B. Probable error
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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Who said this statement?
"I once asked a Australian native why he had to avoid his mother-in-law, and his reply was 'because she is my best friend in the world: she has given me my wife'. The mutual respect between son-in-law and parents-in-law is a mode of friendship. It presents conflict that might arise through divergence of interests."
A. Radcliffe-Brown
B. B. Malinowski
C. Margaret Mead
D. Ruth Benedict
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The measures of dispersion (mean and standard deviation) show
A. Degree of inequality
B. Degree of equality
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
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With whom you will associate the method of participant observation?
A. Psychology
B. Social Anthropology
C. Archaeology
D. Biology
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The . . . . . . . . method consists in the collection of data concerning the living, the working conditions of people in a given area with a view to formulate practical social measures for their betterment and welfare.
A. Ideal types
B. Social survey
C. Sociometry
D. Statistics
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The research antagonistic to ex-post tacto research is
A. Experimental studies
B. Library researches
C. Normative researches
D. All of the above
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Which types of sampling method is ideally suited, where there is no knowledge about population?
A. Conventional sampling method
B. Purposive sampling method
C. Quota sampling method
D. Snowball sampling method
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In an experimental group dynamic situation and new social norms arise
A. When the experimenter gives an instruction
B. When individuals are faced with ambiguous situations
C. When instrumental roles are performed
D. When expressive roles are performed
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Thurston scale is a type of
A. Interview schedule
B. Attitude scale
C. Opinion poll
D. Questionnaire
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What is positivism?
A. Positivism refers to statistics and statistical analysis
B. Positivism refers to knowledge about the nature of our being in the world as revealed through theoretical philosophising
C. Positivism is a philosophical position on how we go about obtaining knowledge
D. Positivism holds that knowledge is grounded in religion
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A relationship in which change in one variable always induce change in another variable is known as
A. Positive correlation
B. Linear correlation
C. Unfounding relation
D. Cause and effect relationship
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Which method involves counting of the incidence of particular items belonging to a set of usually pre-determined categories?
A. Case Study
B. Content Analysis
C. Both A and B
D. None of these
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