These are words, phrases, or symbols in language that used to represent these mental images in communication

This provides a working definition for a term and a focus to our observations

This level of measurement allows variables to be logically rank ordered

This is a specifiable aspect of a concept - the specifications of which are referred to as 'indicators'

These are two very important qualities that every variable should have

This method of dealing with reliability issues suggests researchers should make more than one method of measuring any particular concept

This is the process of regarding things as real that are not

This level of measurement is the only level that has a true zero point

This type of measure uses indexes of different indicators; each indicator measured at the ordinal level and are used when a single indicator is insufficient for measuring variances in a concept

This is the mental image we have about something

This is the lowest level of measurement possible and is merely labels that describe characteristics

These crimes are not measured well by police records

This indicates how a concept will be measured for the purposes of a specific study

____________________ does not ensure accuracy as the results obtained may be incorrect each and every time

The UCR is a ________________ - level measure of crime that does not allow for the study of individual criminal incidents