However, in order for telephone administration to be employed, it is important to demonstrate that equivalent answers would be elicited from respondents regardless of whether the mode of survey administration was face-to-face or via the telephone.
"Is it possible," he asked, "to devise a modern equivalent?" The answer is yes.
To test these two aspects is equivalent to answer the following question: are the disease genes more functionally related than two generic human genes according to <img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012742.e013.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> ?
The overall study from which findings are presented gave stem-equivalent short answer and multiple choice tests of English structure and reading to students at Prince of Songkla University, Thailand.
For example, a simple statistical probe, requiring an answer equivalent to "yes" or "no" may tell us very little.
Its Excel test, for example, has seen more than 1 million answers, with users spending the equivalent of 176 days answering questions about Excel.
For them, the Wikipedia page is the equivalent of posting an answer sheet to next year's SAT.
To gain the top marks pupils will have to answer questions equivalent to the Advanced Extension Award AEAA), which was introduced to add extra stretch but which has so far failed to win the backing of schools.
The new technology is based on earlier applications of the technique, which used free-letter spelling to allow people to answer the equivalent of multiple-choice questions with just a few possible answers.
E.g., it is possible that some respondents have not understood the problem statement, or that some may have found it expedient to answer the equivalent of "I don't know" instead of reflecting on the data at hand.
