It is thus the comparative problem that we have to deal with, not the absolute question.
The aim of this study was to evaluate two single-item physical activity questions (one absolute question and one relative question) for test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity, in a sample of older adults.
Here, adaptive scaling would allow the relative allocation of exploration among better or worse known parts of an environment to be separated from the absolute question as to how much to explore as a whole.
For example, Yin and Wang [5] study absolute ruin questions for the perturbed compound Poisson risk process with investment and debit interests by the expected discounted penalty function at absolute ruin.
The utility of X-ray diffraction as the ultimate and preferred method to obtain unequivocal answers regarding absolute stereochemical questions (such as those above) has once more been demonstrated.
Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity of an absolute PA question and a relative PA question, in a sample of community-dwelling older adults.
Now...when I read about Dobson scaring his kids into thinking they will be eaten by a cat if they do not heed his authority -- or read him wax romantically about his mom wounding his midsection with a mid-century girdle -- the absolute last question that pops into my head is, "What can I do to make this man an influential figure in U.S. politics?" Egads, no.
The absolute PA question had better test-retest reliability than the relative PA question.
A subset (n = 94) receiving a CA2 were also evaluated with the Veterans Comprehensive Assessmentt (VCA) Percentages were calculated excluding those with missing values Results indicated that the absolute PA question had better test-retest reliability than the relative PA question.
The relative PA question may also be less prone to recall errors, compared to the absolute PA question, since participants do not need to remember the duration or frequency of their typically performed activities.
