Title: Deceived by Omission: The Difficulty of Matching Measurement and Theory When Assessing the Home Environment
Abstract: The two commentaries on our article illustrate the kinds of challenges one faces in constructing measures of the home environment. There are few areas of inquiry in the field of human development where Gjerde's (this issue) concern about defining the boundaries for group membership is more salient than is true of the family environment. Likewise, there are few areas of measurement where Knight's (this issue) concern about measurement equivalence is more pertinent than is measurement of the home environment. Although the focus of the two commentaries and the focus of our article are quite different on their face, one theme unites them all: In constructing and evaluating measures, one needs to be wary of being deceived by what is omitted in the process. In the commentary by Gjerde, this theme took the form of concerns about obliterating the differences among persons who are classified as belonging to the same broad ethnic or cultural group. In the commentary by Knight, this theme took the form of concerns a...
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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