Factors influencing choice of method
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- Created on: 15-02-16 17:38
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- Factors influencing choice of method
- Practical
- Subject Matter
- May be harder to study a particular group or subject by one method or another
- Time and money
- Large scale surveys may employ dozens of interviewers and data inputting staff
- Requirements of funding bodies
- Organisations that provide the funding for research may require the results to be in a particular form
- Personal skills and characteristics
- Different personal skills may affect the ability to use different methods
- Research opportunity
- The opportunity to carry out research may occur unexpectedly meaning it may not be possible to use structured methods
- Subject Matter
- Ethical
- Vulnerable groups
- Special care should be taken where research participants are particularly vulnerable
- Informed consent
- Research participants should be offered the right to refuse
- Confidentiality and privacy
- Researchers should keep the identity of research participants secret in order to help prevent possible negative side effects
- Effects on research participants
- Researchers need to be aware of the possible effects of their work on those they study
- Covert research
- When the researchers identity and purpose are hidden from the people being studied
- Vulnerable groups
- Theoretical
- Representativeness
- Whether or not the people we study are a typical cross section of the groups we are interested in. Use ratios/ percentages closest to the whole population
- Reliability
- A reliable method is one which, when repeated gives the same results
- Validity
- A valid method is one which produces a true or genuine picture of what something is really like. Allows the researcher to get closer to the truth
- Representativeness
- Practical
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