Reliability

Area 51: Aliens, True or Real? Area 51 has long been understood to obscure real evidence about aliens since the twentieth century. In the article Area 51’s Facade, the author states the significance of the structures in Area 51 which alludes to the fact of the existence of aliens. This paper will analyze the validity of the article by analyzing the claims, assumptions, and evidence made by the author, analyze how the author’s views are more pseudoscientific than scientific, and by using…

assessments, I would use a standard assessment tool and observation. I would use a standard assessment tool because it can provide me with baseline functioning information on the client. The standard assessment tool holds the highest levels of reliability and validity, which is why I feel using at least one in my client’s assessment, would be important. The standard assessment tool can indicate any severe medical issues or medications that require attention to. The standard tool will further…

unreliable source to support an argument will only weaken it. Robert Harris’s EAR method, found in his book, Using Sources Effectively: Strengthening Your Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism, is a great way to evaluate a source’s expertise, accuracy, and reliability. “Are We Becoming More Socially Awkward? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Technological Communication Use and Social Skills in College Students” is an article by Cecilia Brown that describes her experiment performed on students…

It is universally acknowledged that loneliness acts as an uncomfortable condition which caused by social isolation. However, loneliness has severely spreaded around every side of the world, strongly affects social life of individual, usually in a negative manner. The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck shares a similar idea as what has mentioned above, the main characters - Crooks, Curley’s wife and Candy, have all suffered from loneliness, despite its consequences developed…

because it allows the researcher to remain as unbiased and objective as possible (Carr, 1994, p. 717). Another strength is that from the randomised large scale sampling that is typically used; quantitative research results usually have a higher reliability and increased chances of being able to be more generalised than qualitative research (Carr, 1994; Liamputtong,…

Development of the Compulsive Buying Questionnaire The Compulsive Buying Questionnaire (CBQ) is a revised combination of German Compulsive Buying Scale—Chinese Version (Li, Unger & Bi, 2014) and compulsive-buying scale (Ridgway, Kukar-Kinney & Monroe, 2008). The hypothetical components include impulsive-buying behavior (Faber and O’Guinn, 1992), obsessive-compulsive buying behavior (Hollander & Allen, 2006), and adverse consequences (Dell’Osso, Allen, Altamura, Buoli & Hollander, 2008). Item…

Is DSM-5 an improvement over DSM-IV in the area of PTSD? The publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) introduces a number of significant changes to the criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder, including the revision to the A trauma criterion, three additional symptoms (increasing the symptom total from 17 to 20), and a division of the avoidance cluster into avoidance and negative alterations…

Reliability ensures assessment pieces yield accurate results, irrespective of the time, place or assessor. This assessment piece will yield similar results, due to the clear, concise and simple expectations on the task sheet and rubric (Churchill, et al., 2013). Repetition involving phrases increases and ensures reliability (Dylan, 2011), due to consistent expectations of what must be included, creating an easy…

An in-depth understanding of the Standards Setting in the Accounting Industry (SSAI) is of major importance and the historical roots involving the roles of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are critical aspects of accounting. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the American Institute of Certified Accountants (AICPA) is a prevalent and has been a useful set of standards for accountants. A presentation of an overview of the role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…

meanings of the word). “The Things They Carried” is a story about storytelling itself and its blurry nature, and it follows the very unreliable and murky essence of any oral tradition. This introduces the next topic to be analyzed: The Truth, or reliability, in a literary…