Imagine that Jang, Patrick, and Schuler (2017) had conducted their own survey instead of using secondary data from the MFT. If in the coding process, the coders accidentally skipped some participants’ answers while inputting the data into the computer, which of the following types of measurement error would this pose to their study?
a. idiosyncratic error
b. systematic error
c. validity error
d. face validity
e. none of these