Research
Ethics
Ethics
This panel of experts reviews all research projects involving human subjects.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
The method demonstrated in the reading “Evicted.”
What is ethnography?
The scale that has a “true zero” point.
What is ratio scale?
Software used to save, organize, and format citations.
What is Zotero?
The 49th vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
When a researcher cannot identify a specific response with a specific respondent.
What is anonymity?
The list of all items from which a sample can be drawn.
What is a sample frame?
The term for analyzing two variables to determine correlation.
What is bivariate analysis?
When chosen based on convenience, constitutes bad research design.
What are case studies?
This person has won the second-most grand slam championships in women’s tennis history.
Who is Serena Williams?
This study subjected participants to personal agony as a result of their participation.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The method demonstrated in “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.”
What is observation?
The name for a popular rating scale for measuring ordinal data.
What is Likert scale?
A topic relevant to a field of interest, but not yet researched
What is a research gap?
The year the first Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line.
What is 1909?
The document research subjects must receive and sign before participating in a research project.
What is an informed consent form?
The groups commonly associated with experimental research.
What are the treatment and control groups?
The most common statistical analysis software for students.
What is Python + R?
The process of turning abstract ideas into measurable constructs (also something Dave cannot say)
What is operationalization?
This body of water has been called “the biggest environmental disaster in California History.”
What is the Salton Sea?
The organization that maintains the Code of Ethics for professional planners and researchers.
What is the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)?
This type of experimental research is incredibly rare and valuable.
What is a natural experiment?
The probability that a statistical inference is caused by pure chance.
What is the p-value?
A sampling strategy that relies on participants to recommend other participants.
What is snowball sampling?
The musical group that gave us the lyric, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Who is Semisonic?