Reliability

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Reliability
How consistent results are each time an investigation is carried out.
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Test-retest reliability
Administering the same test to same people on a different occasions and comparing results. should produce +80
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Inter-observer(rater/interviewer) reliability
Extent to which 2 or more observers agree on the behaviours displayed during an observation
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Improving questionnaire reliability
Replace some open questions with closed ones, to make them less ambiguous and increase test-retest reliability.
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Improving interview reliability
Avoid leading or ambiguous questions, and use same trained interviewer each time
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Improving experiment reliability
Standardise procedures to minimise extraneous variables
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Improving observation reliability
Behavioural categories should be operationalised and shouldn't overlap
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Test-retest reliability

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Administering the same test to same people on a different occasions and comparing results. should produce +80

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Improving questionnaire reliability

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