No season eight for Rules of Engagement. The cancellation doesnât come as a surprise. The ratings have been down this year and a couple of the actors had been cast in other projects.
The specific way in which a variable is measured in a particular study is called the operational definition. It is critical to operationally define a variable in order to lend credibility to the methodology and to ensure the reproducibility of the results. Another study may measure the same variable differently.
The OPERATIONAL DEFINITION provides a concrete description of the variable. If the variable is not directly measurable, it identifies aspects of the variable that can be. directly measured. In addition, whether or not the variable can be directly measured, the operational definition names the possible values of the variable. For example, self-esteem is a measure of how people feel about themselves. It is not directly measurable. Three aspects of self-esteem that can be measured are: levels.