Nerds

Respond to Posts

Take a look at two separate instruments provided by your peers on

#wk4-conspiracy

Without contacting them, try to interpret what is being measured and provide feedback where you think they could improve. Please use the the column table layout¹ below.

1. Open a blank copy of the following

2. Create a four column table with the following headers

   index	measure	group	changes

   where the
   
   

   1. index is an item number given in order of appearance

   2. measure is your guess about the associated measure

   3. group is your guess about the associated group of items, if applicable

   4. changes is a brief description of all recommended alterations, if applicable
      
      

3. Include any general feedback within the body of the post

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Read Some Papers

For the readings below, write a single post on Slack addressing the task:

Title	Paper	Task	Post	Link
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale in a Sample of Self-identified Nerds/geeks	Finister, C., Pollet, T. V., & Neave, N. (2021)	This week is related to critiquing. First read both articles and then pick one to critique, in particular scrutinize the measures used and use what we’ve covered in the required readings for your justifications. Please remember to cite your sources.	#wk5-nerds
A Psychological Exploration of Engagement in Geek Culture	McCain, J., Gentile, B., & Campbell, W. K. (2015)

Read Some Text

Title	Section	Link
Item Analysis	Chapter VI
Validity	Chapter IX