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Questionnaires → Pros and Cons
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- 1what are practical pros to Questionnaires?1. Quick and Cheap for gathering large sets of data → Connor and Dawson managed to mail 4000 copies to 14 uni·s
2. no need to train or recruit interviewers, unlike interviews, because they're not required
3. easy to quantify - 2ethical pros of questionnaires?there isn't many, as respondents are not under any obligation to reply or share any personal information
- 3theoretical pros of questionnaires?positivists say that it avoids the Hawthorne effect as the researcher has very little contact with respondents
- 4reliability advantages of questionnaires?1. it's a reliable method ∵ if one was to use the same questionnaire on different respondents (similar to previous ones), it could give the same results, this is called 'fixed yardstick'
2. if respondents were to give different answers, we could assume they're real differences - 5practical issues of questionnaires?1. must be brief, and have a prize in order to draw respondents in
2. low response rates → e.g. Hite sent out 100000, and only 4.5% came back, and as a result, it would lead to unrepresentative data - 6other issues with questionnaires?1. snapshot of a time
2. Cicourel (Interpretivists) → they lack validity because they're too detached to respondents and that methods that have interactions with them allow a more qualitative data
3. lying and 'right answerism' → R.T. La Pierre found that in 1934, only hotel out of 251 refused service to a Chinese couple, he later phoned the same hotels asking them if they would serve Chinese people, and only ONE HOTEL said they would offer service - 7what are other interpretivists' issues with questionnaires?1. close-ended questions → respondents have to fit their idea to answers, and Shipman claimed that they distort respondents' answers and meanings
2. open-ended questions → hard to quantify,
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- Fichas sobre Questionnaires → Pros and Cons, creado por Tahamina Islam el 23/06/2019.
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