MCQS FOR EXT 651 COURSE

1. EXT-651
MCQ
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL RESEARCH
BY
DR.J.ROBINSON RAJA
CHOOSETHE BEST ANSWER FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
01) Which is (are) the reverseof research hypothesis ?
a) H₀ b) H₁ c) Both d) None
02) Which method is used for testing the null hypothesis ?
a) S.D b) S.E c) Variance d) chi squaretest
03) Which hypothesis is / arequantitative one ?
a) Non-directional b) directional c) both d) none
04) Method used for testing or confirming hypothesis ?
a) Top down b) Bottom up c) Inductivehypothesis d) both b & c
05) More serious formof error is
a) Type I b) Type II c) Beta d) Gamma
06) Error occurring due to small sample sizeis
a) Alpha b) Beta c) gamma d) delta
07) Setting a high level of significance encourages the appearance of error is
a) Alpha b) beta c) both d) none
08) Power of hypothesis test is the probability of not committing error in
a) Type I b) Type II c) both d) none
09) Idea of sociometry given by
a) Fisher b) Osgood c) Moreno d) Stephenson
10) Diagrammatic representation of internal structureof choices of
members of group is
a) Directed graphs b) sociogram c) sociometric matrices d) both a & b
11) Poor graphic device for finding detecting mutual choices is
a) Sociogram b) sociometric matrices c) sociometric indices d) none
12) Which is mostly used for finding lay leaders ?
a) Sociogram b) sociometric matrices c) sociometric indices d) none
13) Three or more individuals who mutually choose each other is
a) Star b) gregariousness c) clique d) two way

2. 14) Guess who technique is given by
a) Kurt lewin b) Rogers c) Harsthorneand May d) J.L. Moreno
15) Warranty cards is an example for
a) Primary data b) Secondary data c) both d) none
16) Which is used to estimate consumption of basket of goods at the
consumer level ?
a) Warranty cards b) consumer panel c) Distributor audits d) Pantry
audits
17) Pupillometric camera is an example for data collection of
a) Primary data b) secondary data c) both d) none
18) Social microscoperefers to
a) Sociometry b) CIT c) case study d) Rosenweig test
19) Case study method was introduced by
a) Moreno b) Rogers c) Frederic le play d) Kurt lewin
20) Mode of organizing data is also called as
a) Content analysis b) case study c) HIT d) sociometry
21) Case study is an example for
a) Quantitative analysis b) Qualitative c) Both d) None
22) Commonly used programfor statistical analysis in social sciences is
a) SAS b) SPSS c) GENSTAT d) STATA
23) Statistical analysis is also called as
a) Descriptive b) Interrogative c) Inferential d) Exploratory
24) Causal analysis is also called as
a) Correlation analysis b) Regression c) Canonical d) Multi variate
25) Which of the following is not an example for standard test ?
a) T test b) chi squaretest c) Z test d) F test
26) Which test is suitable for smallsample size
a) Parametric b) Non parametric c) Standard d) None
27) Vertical bar diagramwithout gap between the bars is
a) Ogive b) frequency polygon c) Histogram d) Bar diagram
28) Mode is obtained from
a) Ogive b) Histogram c) frequency curve d) Lorenz curve
29) Average which is applicable to all sorts of data
a) AM b) GM c) HM d) Median
30) Quickestmeasure of centrality is
a) AM b) GM c) Mode d) Median
31) Which is used for measuring intelligence ?

3. a) Median b) Mode c) AM d) GM
32) Average used in ratios, percentage, microorganism is
a) AM b) GM c) HM d) Median
33) Sheppard’s correction is used in
a) MD b) SD c) QD d) Range
34) Relative measure of dispersion is
a) MD b) SD c) QD d) Variance
35) In negatively skewed distribution long tail is on
a) Left side b) Right side c) both sides d) None
36) Gossettest is also called as
a) F test b) Z test c) t test d) chi squaretest
37) Yates correction is used in
a) F test b) Z test c) t test d) chi squaretest
38) Which of the following is not based upon sampling ?
a) Interview b) Questionnaire c) Case study d) none
39) Personalbias is more in
a) Interview b) Questionnaire c) Case study d) all
40) Application of remedial measures is called
a) Case study b) editing b) debugging d) case work
41) Which is a technique for summarising thefindings of severalstudies ?
a) Cluster analysis b) Meta analysis c) ANOVA d) multivariate
42) Researchers should retain study data for a minimum period of
a) 3 months b) 4 months c) 5 months d) 6 months
43) Which correlation is used to examine the relationship between two
dichotomous variables?
a) Gamma b) alpha c) phi d) delta
44) Which correlation is used to examine relationship between one nominal
variable and one ordinalvariable
a) Gamma b) alpha c) phi d) delta
45) Correlation of class rank and socio- economic status is an example of
a) Point biserial b) spearman rank order c) Phi d) gamma
46) Correlation of ethnicity and socio economic status is an example of
a) Point biserial b) spearman rank order c) Phi d) gamma
47) Which test is a special case of ANOVA
a) Z test b) F test c) t Test d) Chi squaretest
48) Real value of research finding lies in
a) Statistical significance b) clinical significance c) both d) none

4. 49) Skewness is zero in distribution of
a) Poisson b) Binomial c) probability curve d) none
50) Intensity of association between two variables is
a) Regression b) correlation c) both d) none
51) Range of regression coefficient is
a) -1 to + 1 b) 0 to ∞ c) - ∞ to + ∞ d) none
52) Squareroot of coefficient of determination is
a) Regression coefficient b) correlation coefficient c) both d) none
53) Range of poisson distribution is
a) 0 to n b) -∞ to + ∞ c) 0 to ∞ d) -1 to +1
54)Which is not a measureof dispersion
a) Range b) MD c) GM d) QD
55) ANOVA was given by
a) Wright b) Fisher c) Gosset d) Pearson
56) Variance ratio test is also called as
a) t test b) F test c) Z test d) chi squaretest
57) which test is used for the significance of changes ?
a) Chi square b) Mann Whitney U c) Mc Nemar d) t test
58) Which is mostuseful alternative to parametric t test to avoid t test’s
assumptions ?
a) Chi square b) Mann Whitney U c) Mc Nemar d) F test
59) Which is used to test whether two independent groups havebeen drawn
fromsame population ?
a) Chi square b) Mann Whitney U c) Mc Nemar d) F test
60) H test is also called as
a) Mann Whitney b) Mc Nemar c) Kruskalwallis d) Friedman
61) Two way analysis of varianceis done by
a) Mann Whitney b) Mc Nemar c) Kruskalwallis d) Friedman
62) Range of Kendall coefficient of concordance is
a) -1 to + 1 b) 0 to ∞ c) - ∞ to + ∞ d) none
63) Least precise of four basic scales of measurement
a) nominal b) Ordinal c) equal interval d) Ratio scale
64) Which scale is not having absolute zero ?
a) nominal b) Ordinal c) equal interval d) Ratio scale

5. 65) Summated rating scale is also called as
a) Guttman scale b) Thurstonescale c) Likertscale d) differential scale
66) Cumulative scale is also called as
a) Guttman scale b) Thurstonescale c) Likertscale d) differential scale
67) Law of gravitation is an example of
a) deductive reasoning b) Inductive c) top down approach d) none
68) Setting a high level of significance tends to prevent error of
a) type I b) type II c) beta d) gamma
69) Alternative hypothesis is one which we tries to
a) Prove b) Disprove c) Both d) none
70) No difference test is also called as
a) one tailed b) two tailed test c) both d) none
71) Significance of a variable that is considered for entrance into regression
equation is measured by
a) F test b) t test c) Z test d) Chi squaretest
72) Process of examining the collected raw data to detect errors and omissions
and to correct these is called as
a) Debugging b) Coding c) Editing d) Blocking
73) Orderly arrangementof data into rows and columns is called as
a) Classification b) Tabulation c) Sequencing d) Processing
74) Which Analysis is used to find out how two populations actually differ ?
a) Canonical b) Path c) Multiple regression d) Discriminantfunction
75) Explaining several dependent variables by a set of independent variables is
a) Canonical b) Path c) Multiple regression d) Discriminantfunction
76) Which is a positional average ?
a) AM b) GM c) Median d) HM
77) Measureof flat toppedness of a curveis

6. a) Skewness b) Kurtosis c) Moment d) None
78) Which approach is used when data is in nominal form
a) Rank correlation b) simple correlation c) Cross tabulation d) none
79) Productmoment correlation coefficient is also called as
a) Rank correlation b) simple correlation c) Cross tabulation d) none
80) Which test is used for test the goodness of fit
a) t Test b) F test c) Chi squaretest d) Z test
81) Fisher – Irwin test is an example of
a) Parametric b) Non-parametric c) Both d) Standard test
82) Wilcoxon Matched- pairs test is also called as
a) Fisher-Irwin test b) Signed Rank test c) U test d) H test
83) Mann-Whitney test is also called as
a) Fisher-Irwin test b) Signed Rank test c) U test d) H test
84) Which test is used to judge the randomness of the sample
a) Rank sum test b) signed rank test c) Sign test d) One samplerun
test
85) Which is the mostoften used multivariate analysis in social sciences ?
a) Canonical b) Discriminantfunction c) MANOVA d) Factor
86) Path analysis is given by
a) Malecot b) Wright c) Fisher d) Galton
87) Which attitudinal scale is difficult to construct?
a) Likert scale b) Thurstonescale c) Guttman scale d) summated rating
88) Which is / are descriptivein nature ?
a) Fact b) Data c) Both d) None
89) Spearman Rank correlation is usefulwhen the number of samples are less
than
a) 10 b) 20 c) 30 d) 40

7. 90) Which test is used for testing differenceonly ?
a) One tailed b) Two tailed c) Three tailed test d) both b & c
91) The ANOVA procedureis a statistical approach for determining whether or
not
a) the means of two samples are equal
b) the means of two or more samples are equal
c) the means of more than two samples are equal
d) the means of two or more populations are equal
92) Which of the following does not need to be known in order to compute the
p-value?
a) knowledgeof whether the test is one-tailed or two-tailed
b) the value of the test statistic
c) the level of significance
d) None of these
93) If a hypothesis is rejected at the 5% level of significance, it
a) will always be rejected at the 1% level
b) will always be accepted at the 1% level
c) will never be tested at the 1% level
d) may be rejected or not rejected at the 1% level
94) In point estimation
a) data fromthe population is used to estimate the population parameter
b) data fromthe sample is used to estimate the population parameter
c) data fromthe sample is used to estimate the samplestatistic
d) the mean of the population equals the mean of the sample
95) In hypothesis testing, the hypothesis tentatively assumed to be true is
a) the alternative hypothesis
b) the null hypothesis

8. c) either the null or the alternative
d) None of these
96) An important application of the chi-squaredistribution is
a) making inferences about a single population variance
b) testing for goodness of fit
c) testing for the independence of two variables
d) All of these alternatives are correct.
97) The measure of location which is the most likely to be influenced by
extreme values in the data set is the
a) Range b) Median c) Mode d) Mean
98) The level of significanceis the
a) maximum allowable probability of Type II error
b) maximum allowable probability of Type I error
c) same as the confidence coefficient
d) sameas the p-value.
99) An assumption madeabout the value of a population parameter is called a
a) Hypothesis
b) Conclusion
c) Confidence
d) Significance
100) The sum of the values of  and 
a) always add up to 1.0
b) always add up to 0.5
c) is the probability of Type II error
d) None of these.

9. ANSWERS
1) A
2) B
3) B
4) A
5) A
6) B
7) B
8) B
9) C
10) D
11) B
12) A
13) C
14) C
15) A
16) D
17) A
18) C
19) C
20) B
21) B
22) B
23) C
24) B
25) B
26) B
27) C
28) B
29) A
30) C
31) A
32) C
33) B
34) D
35) A
36) C

10. 37) D
38) C
39) C
40) D
41) B
42) C
43) C
44) A
45) B
46) D
47) C
48) B
49) C
50) B
51) C
52) B
53) C
54) C
55) B
56) B
57) C
58) B
59) B
60) C
61) D
62) B
63) A
64) C
65) C
66) A
67) B
68) A
69) A
70) B
71) A
72) C
73) B

11. 74) D
75) A
76) C
77) B
78) C
79) B
80) C
81) B
82) B
83) C
84) D
85) D
86) B
87) C
88) A
89) S
90) C
91) D
92) C
93) D
94) B
95) B
96) D
97) D
98) B
99) A
100) D