Theory and Methods
- Created by: Joanaar
- Created on: 03-12-20 11:56
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- Theory and methods revision
- Types of data
- Quantitative data
- numbers and statistics
- easy generalised to form a law of behaviour
- structured interviews
- questionnaires
- structured interviews
- easy generalised to form a law of behaviour
- more reliable
- does not provide meaning behind behaviour
- numbers and statistics
- Qualitative data
- verbal data involving opinions and meanings
- unstructured interviews, observations and documents
- good for researching topics
- Open to interpretation
- Primary
- more valid
- time consuming
- could be biased/ethical
- First hand by a researcher to perfectly suit the hypothesis
- more valid
- secondary
- newspapers, government consensus'
- may not be valid or reliable
- compare past and present society
- may not be valid or reliable
- newspapers, government consensus'
- Quantitative data
- 5 key things
- Reliability- can it be repeated in the future to get similar results
- representativeness
- generalisability- extent to which the findings can be applied to the population
- validity
- true to real life?
- validity
- generalisability- extent to which the findings can be applied to the population
- representativeness
- objectivity- all personal and emotional bias has been removed
- Reliability- can it be repeated in the future to get similar results
- Types of data
- identify a topic of interest
- gather background info
- identify research question or hypothesis
- gather background info
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