Methods
Tools or stimuli used in data collection, e.g., questions or software. (slide 8)
What are materials?
A tally of the number of times a specific thing occurs in a dataset. (slides 12-13)
What is a (raw) count?
Kinds of variables analysed through numerical comparisons or statistical inference, usually reported in numbers (slide 17)
What are quantitative variables?
The process of gathering and curating data. (Slide 4)
What are methods?
The act of considering not only the wellbeing of participants, but also of researcher(s) involved. (slide 32)
What is researcher responsibility?
The group of people data was collected from, including information relevant about those people. (slide 8)
What are participants?
An approach to analysis concerned with uncovering shared properties of phenomena, assuming a fixed/measureable reality. (slide 15)
What is quantitative analysis?
Variables that are impossible to order or sequence in a relevant way. (Slide 19)
What are nominal variables?
A curated body of natural language used as a dataset; often written, usually stored in the form of text. (Slide 7)
What is a [linguistic] corpus?
The fact that researchers cannot decide whether their research is ethical, because they have a strong a priori interest in doing their research. (slide 28)
What is conflict of interest?
Taking unstructured text and cleaning and structuring the data for linguistic analysis. (Slide 7)
What is corpus curation?
A count of the number of times something occurs in a dataset, divided by the total number of things in the dataset. (Slides 14-15)
What is a proportion?
Variables that can be sorted, but where distance between categories is not precise or meaningful. (slide 19)
What are ordinal variables?
The process of measuring or summarising qualitative or quantitative variables within a dataset. (Slide 4)
What is [data] analysis?
Providing incentives for participation that conflict with consent, e.g., paying £200/hr for an interview about favourite foods. (slide 29)
What is coercion?
Having participants answer a specific set of researcher specified questions in an open-ended way, usually in a conversational setting. (slide 7)
What is an interview?
An approach to analysis concerned with understanding an individual or specific perspective, assuming a dynamic and negotiated reality. (slide 15)
What is qualitative analysis?
Variables that can be sorted, and where relationships between each level can be easily/precisely interpreted. (slide 19)
What are [numeric or scalar] variables?
The people/language users who produced the language or measured behaviour in a dataset. (Slide 4)
Who/what are participants?
Not informing participants of the purpose of an experiment until after it is completed, because this would interfere with data quality. (slide 30)
What is temporary deception?
Having participants complete a researcher specified task in a controlled environment, while taking structured measurements of their behaviour. (slide 7)
What is a behavioural experiment?
A proportion multiplied by 100, and its maximum possible value. (slide 15)
What is a percentage and 100?
Variables with precise or interpretable distances, but where differences may change between levels. (slide 19)
What are unequal ratio variables?
Information related to a theory that is verifiable by observation or experience. (Slide 3)
What is evidence?
The key overarching concept in the acronym FRIES, and what each letter stands for. (Slide 29)
What is consent, and Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific