Basics & philosophy
Which source must you never cite in your studies?
Wikipedia
Peer-reviewed, formally published literature is called
White literature
Research purpose that establishes causal relationships
Explanatory
Collecting data from every member of the population
Census
People studied through observation are called…
Informants
Assumptions about the nature of reality
Ontology
Organise your review by ___, not by author
Theme
The p-value threshold at which a hypothesis is usually accepted
p ≤ 0.05
Minimum sample size for ±5% at 95% confidence with a large population
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Ethnography of online communities
Netnography
Philosophy of the natural scientist: observable facts, law-like generalisations
Positivism
Following reference lists backwards to earlier work
Snowballing
Mixed-methods design: quantitative first, then qualitative
Sequential explanatory
Sampling where participants refer the next participants
Snowball sampling
Interview with no predetermined themes, where the participant leads
In-depth (unstructured) interview
A tentative "if…then" prediction used in quantitative research
Hypothesis
Acronym for framing systematic review questions (Context, Intervention, Mechanisms, Outcome)
CIMO
Level of access where participants trust you enough to give data
Cognitive access
The point when new interviews bring no new themes
Data saturation
Statistic for internal consistency of a scale, ideally ≥ 0.70
Cronbach's alpha
Approach that starts from a surprising fact and moves between data and theory (Sherlock Holmes' real method)
Abduction
Drafting tool with themes as columns and one row per source
Thematic Analysis Grid
Ethical view that judges conduct by its consequences
Teleological
What do the FAIR data principles stand for?
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
What's wrong with "How satisfied are you with your pay and working conditions?"
Double-barrelled question