Research Method
A researcher would need to pick a larger ___________ to minimize the margin of error and maximize the level of confidence.
What is sample size?
_____________ interviews that collect detailed accounts of people's experiences.
What are phenomenological interviews?
The ________ score is also the average score.
What is the mean score?
_________ analysis includes the analysis of the social context by which texts are produced.
What is critical discourse analysis?
___________ data is rank ordered.
What is ordinal data?
__________ sampling can be defined as the process when one person that is interviewed recommends another person to be interviewed
What is snowball sampling?
A good interview should be constructed in a way that creates an __________ conversation.
What is an interesting conversation?
________________ can help the researcher sort out the relationships between several variables.
What are control variables?
____________ are patterns of behavior that people are generally unaware of.
What are hidden social patterns?
When every member of the population has an equal chance of being in a sample, we call that sample ____________.
What is random sample?
__________________ is a process of tracing the ties between people.
What is network analysis?
_________ _____________ are methodological tools get at "deep meanings"
What are in-depth interviews?
__________ is the smallest confidence level that researchers will typically accept.
What is 95%?
Ethnographers need to take extensive ________ because they may forget significant things about their observations.
What are notes?
When surveying a random sample of a larger population, the _____ tells you how close to the actual population results your sample results come.
What is margin of error?
__________ refers to the element being explained through research.
What is the dependent variable?
____________ type of interviews provide information that experts know, and ____________ type of interviews provide information that everybody knows.
What are Expert Interviews and Cultural Interviews?
_____________ analysis allows you to see if a number of questions all measure approximately the same thing.
What is factor analysis?
___________,_________,___________ are the three main goals of ethnography.
What are Seeing the world as participants see it; Understanding hidden patterns; Developing rapport with the participants?
Within ANOVA, the ___________ refers to the element being explained through research.
What is the F-statistic?
Ethnographic research often depends on finding _______________ who know the culture well and are willing to facilitate your research.
What are key informants?
The purpose of ______ analysis and _______ analysis is to find hidden social patterns in text and artifacts of popular culture.
What is the purpose of discourse and content analysis?
yhat gives the ___________ of the dependent variable based on any given value of the independent variable.
What is the estimate?
Field notes should be taken either ___________ the observation or immediately ________ the observation.
What are During and After?
In regression, the ___________ is used to find the statistical significance of a relationship.
What is the standard error of slope?