The owner of a restaurant has recently hired a new manager who claims to have improved the workflow. the owner wants to know if indeed, the new workflow is more effective. he has some past data on customer waiting time during peak demand hours. he plans to collect the new data to test this. what kind of a test will he do if he wants to compare the new wait time with the old data in this way?

-if he takes the same number of observations, he can do a paired t-test

-this is a paired t-test because we are checking before and after

-this will be t-test unequal variances because now he has a new manager

-this is a test about sample proportions

Reliability and validity reliability and validity are two important considerations that must be made with any type of data collection. reliability refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result. in the context of psychological research, this would mean that any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in consistent, reproducible ways. unfortunately, being consistent in measurement does not necessarily mean that you have measured something correctly. to illustrate this concept, consider a kitchen scale that would be used to measure the weight of cereal that you eat in the morning. if the scale is not properly calibrated, it may consistently under- or overestimate the amount of cereal that’s being measured. while the scale is highly reliable in producing consistent results (e.g., the same amount of cereal poured onto the scale produces the same reading each time), those results are incorrect. this is where validity comes into play. validity refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure. while any valid measure is by necessity reliable, the reverse is not necessarily true. researchers strive to use instruments that are both highly reliable and valid.