You are interested in looking at the relationship between education and well-being. You decide that you will use the number of years of schooling completed as the way you will measure level of education. This step in the scientific method is called:
A) operationalizing the concept.
B) establishing the validity of your measure.
C) determining if your measure is reliable.
D) standardizing your measure.

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Operationalizing the concept refers to the process of defining a complex or abstract idea in terms of the specific, observable measures or behaviors that will be used to represent it. In this case, the researcher is defining education as the number of years of schooling completed, which is an operational definition of the concept of education.

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