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- 1Whether the findings accurately reflect the reality they are describing (i.e. the truth)Validity
- 2Whether the findings can be checked by another researcher and would they achieve the same resultsReliability
- 3Refers to numbers and statistics, often presented in the form of graphs and tables. E.g. a questionnaire would produce this typeQuantitative data
- 4Descriptive, in the form of words rather than numbers. E.g. a recording would produce this typeQualitative data
- 5These take place in controlled conditions and try to establish a relationship between two or more variables, that is, factors that can be changed. It will usually include, cause and effect and a correlationExperiments
- 6The researcher is able to control most aspects of the researchLaboratory experiments
- 7Take place in the "real world". They have the advantage that they will tell us more about how people behave, although the researcher will not have as much control over the experimentField experiments
- 8If people are being told they are being studied or become aware that an experiment is taking place, their behavior is likely to changeThe Hawthorne Effect
- 9Informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, right to withdraw, protection from harm (physically and psychologically)Ethical considerations
- 10Simply this is a list of questions. Usually these are more reliable but less validSocial surveys (questionnaires)
- 11These include a number of fixed choice questions, where respondents have to select from a selection of answersClosed questions
- 12Allow respondents to answer the question in their own way. The answer is therefore in the respondent´s own words and it is much harder to produce statisticsOpen questions
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- Cambridge IGCSE Sociology (01 Research methods) Flashcards on Key terms, created by astrophysicist95 on 27/03/2014.
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