The best way for a researcher to judge the face validity of items on a measure is by asking both other experts and test participants to evaluate the instrument.
The combination of experts with background knowledge and research experience, along with test participants who form the target audience of the instrument, provides a good idea of the instrument’s face validity.
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Face validity refers to the extent to which a research instrument appears to measure what it’s supposed to measure. For example, a questionnaire created to measure customer loyalty has high face validity if the questions are strongly and clearly related to customer loyalty.
Construct validity refers to the extent to which a tool or instrument actually measures a construct, rather than just its surface-level appearance.
Read this FAQ: What is the difference between construct validity and face validity?
Content validity and face validity are both types of measurement validity.
- Content validity refers to the degree to which the items or questions on a measure accurately reflect all elements of the construct or concept that’s being measured. It assesses whether the items are accurate, relevant, and comprehensive in measuring the construct.
- Face validity refers to the degree to which a measure seems to be measuring what it claims to measure. It assesses whether the measure appears to be relevant.
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The variable age can be measured at the ordinal or ratio level.
- If you ask participants to provide you with their exact age (e.g., 28), the data is ratio level.
- If you ask participants to select the bracket that contains their age (e.g., 26–35), the data is ordinal.
Ordinal data and ratio data are similar because they can both be ranked in a logical order. However, for ratio data, the differences between adjacent scores are equal and there’s a true, meaningful zero.
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Ordinal is the second level of measurement. It has two main properties:
- Ordinal data can be grouped into categories
- Ordinal data can be ranked in a logical order (e.g., low, medium, high)
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Ordinal data and interval data are similar because they can both be ranked in a logical order. However, for interval data, the differences between adjacent scores are equal.
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Ordinal data is usually considered qualitative in nature. The data can be numerical, but the differences between categories are not equal or meaningful. This means you can’t use them to calculate measures of central tendency (e.g., mean) or variability (e.g., standard deviation).
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You can’t use an ANOVA test if the nominal data is your dependent variable. The dependent variable needs to be continuous (interval or ratio data).
The independent variable for an ANOVA should be categorical (either nominal or ordinal data).
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No, nominal data can only be assigned to categories that have no inherent order to them.
Categorical data with categories that can be ordered in a meaningful way is called ordinal data.
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Nominal data and ordinal data are similar because they can both be grouped into categories. However, ordinal data can be ranked in a logical order (e.g., low, medium high), whereas nominal data can’t (e.g., male, female, nonbinary).
Read this FAQ: What is the difference between nominal and ordinal data?
