Survey Research
Research that collects data at multiple points in time.
What is a longitudinal study?
The middle value observed when observations are ranked from the lowest to the highest.
What is the median?
The probability that a researcher would observe an association as large as they did if the null hypothesis were true.
What is the p-value?
A study in which neither the researcher nor the participant is aware of which condition the participant is in.
What is a double-blind study?
This approach assumes that we are the sum of our demographic categories.
What is methodological individualism?
When a sampling frame does not adequately capture all members of the target population.
What is coverage error?
The average distance between the value of each observation and the overall mean.
What is the standard deviation?
This method is used for comparing observed versus expected outcomes of categorical variables.
What is the chi-square test?
This research method has a high degree of internal validity, but a low degree of external validity.
What is experimental research?
In social network theory, this is the number of actual social ties divided by the number of possible social ties
What is network density?
When a respondent answers questions in a way that s/he presumes interviewer will find acceptable.
What is social desirability bias?
The probability that an estimate includes the population parameter.
What is the confidence level?
When two variables are associated with each other even though one does not cause the other.
What is confounding?
What is an audit study?
The number of ties aimed at others from a node.
What is the out degree?
The analysis of a single variable.
This becomes smaller when the sample size is larger.
What is the margin of error?
A potentially confounding variable added to regression analysis to estimate the relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable net of its influence.
What is a control variable?
Mitch Duneier's book, Sidewalk used this research method.
What is ethnography?
The path of shortest possible length between two nodes.
What is the geodesic path?
This may be used to visualize the frequency distribution of a continuous variable.
This is used to test if there is no relationship between the dependent and the independent variable.
What is the null hypothesis?
A method for testing whether the mean of the dependent variable differs with changes in the value of the independent variable.
What is the t-test?
Rather than beginning with a theory, researchers using this technique develop theory on the basis of experiences and observations in the field
What is grounded theory?
Research on the 16th century Medici Dynasty, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the Freedom Summer Rides of 1964 were all carried out using this method.
What is archival research?