Survey Basics
What is survey research?
Questions with fixed response options like multiple choice are called this.
What are close-ended questions?
When participants lie or forget information in surveys, this is threatened.
What is validity?
This type of research focuses on words, meanings, and experiences.
What is qualitative methods?
This method involves studying behavior in its natural setting.
What is field observation?
Surveys are best for measuring these three things: experiences, behaviors, and THIS.
Questions that allow participants to answer in their own words are called this.
What are open-ended questions?
Automated programs that complete surveys for incentives are called this.
What are bots?
This method uses in-depth conversations to understand people’s perspectives.
What are qualitative interviews?
Field observation often produces this type of data that is not easily reduced to numbers.
What is qualitative data?
This type of survey helps uncover the "dark figure of crime."
What is a victimization survey?
A question like “Don’t you agree police are unfair?” is an example of this problem.
What is a biased (or leading) question?
One major issue with self-report surveys is that people may do this to appear socially acceptable.
What is underreport or misreport behavior?
These interviews balance structure and flexibility and are most common in criminology.
What are semi-structured interviews?
One strength of field observation is this (realism of behavior).
This type of survey asks people to report their own offending behavior.
These questions direct respondents to different questions based on prior answers.
What are contingency questions?
This happens when too few people respond to a survey.
What is a low response rate?
This concept refers to understanding behavior along with its meaning and context.
What is thick description?
One weakness of field observation is this (limited across larger populations).
What is generalizability?
Surveys can be descriptive, explanatory, exploratory, or this type which is used to assess programs.
What is evaluative research?
This principle says survey questions should be clear, short, and avoid negative wording.
What are guidelines for asking good survey questions?
Griffin et al. reduced bots by changing this from guaranteed $5 payments to a raffle. This is an example of a specific type of structure.
What is the incentive structure?
Qualitative methods are best for answering these types of questions instead of “how many.”
What are "how" and "why" questions?
Field research often helps generate this before testing it later.
What is a hypothesis (or theory)?