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- 1What do questionnaires ask people to answer?Pre-set questions
- 2What type of questions do questionnaires tend to ask?Closed
- 3What approach to positivists take to sociological research?A scientific approach - data should be objective and quantitative
- 4What methods of research do positivists use?Standardised
- 5What do positivists argue this allows them to make about society?Generalisations and cause-and-effect relationships
- 6Give 3 reasons why positivists prefer questionnairesThey produce reliable data so previous findings can be retested, they generate quantitative data that can be used to test hypothesis and identify correlations, can be used on a large scale to produce representative data
- 7What do interpretivists argue that the data produced by questionnaires lacks?Validity
- 8What are the 5 main advantages of questionnaires?Practical advantages, reliability, hypothesis testing, detachment and objectivity and representativeness
- 9What are the 5 practical advantages of questionnaires?Quick, cheap, no need to train interviewees or observers, gather large quantities of data, easy to quantify (due to closed, pre-coded questions)
- 10Why are questionnaires reliable?Because they have a set list of questions and restricted choice of possible answers so it is easily replicated
- 11Why can the respondents answers not be influenced?There is no researchers present to influence them
- 12How can researchers compare results from different groups?By giving the same questionnaire to different groups
- 13How do questionnaires maintain detachment and objectivity?They are completed with little or no contact between researchers and respondents
- 14The presence of a researcher could cause what in other methods of research such as interviews or observation?Bias
- 15Why are questionnaires representatitive?Because they collect data from large numbers of people
- 16What does this mean the findings of large scale questionnaires make the generalisations?More accurate
- 17What are the 6 disadvantages of questionnaires?Practical problems, response rate, inflexibility, detachment, lying/forgetting/right answerism, imposing the researchers meanings
- 18What are the practical problems with questionnaires?They need to be brief, incentives may need to be offered
- 19Why do questionnaires need to be brief and what problems could this cause?Most respondents are unlikely to answer long, time-consuming questionnaires. This limits the amount of information that can be gathered
- 20Why may incentives have to be offeredTo persuade respondents to complete the questionnaire e.g prize draw
- 21Why are the response rates low for postal questionnaires?Few people bother to complete and return them
- 22What factors may reduce response rate?Complex language or bad design
- 23What could a low response rate mean about the results?Those who return their questionnaires may be different from those who don't so the results are unrepresentative
- 24What type of people are more likely to return questionnaires?People with time on their hands
- 25In what 3 ways could researches increase the response rate?By offering incentives, sending follow up questionnaires or collecting by hand
- 26What disadvantage does this bring?It increases the cost and adds to the time
- 27Why are questionnaires inflexible?Once finalised the researcher cannot explore any new areas of interest that may emerge during the course of the research
- 28What disadvantage comes with the detachment of questionnaires?Answers cannot be clarified, misunderstandings cannot be cleared up, no way of knowing if the researcher and respondent interpret the questions and answers in the same way
- 29How may the validity of the data be reduced by the respondent?If they lie, forget, dont know or understand, try to please or annoy the researcher or give a socially desirable answer they feel they ought to give rather than tell the truth
- 30How may a questionnaire impose the researchers meanings?The researcher chooses which questions to ask and decides the response catagories
- 31What do closed ended questions limit?The answers respondents can give
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- Questions and answers on the advantages and disadvantages of questionnaires
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- ashiana121 · may 2015
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