After determining your sample, you can collect data in two ways.
What is an Experiment or a Survey?
100
Data analyzed by you
What is PRIMARY DATA?
100
Bias occurs when.....
characterisitcs do not represent the population.
200
Quantitative data is another term for this type of data.
What is numerical data?
200
Examples of two bad sampling techniques.
What are convenience sampling and voluntary sampling?
200
What is an observational experiment
when you observed an event that already occurred .
200
A chart stating the average height of ONE STUDENT.
What is microdata data?
200
Interviewer asks, "What is your favourite type of genre of movie: comedy, romantic , or horror?"
What is a LEADING QUESTION.....prompting an answer of a particular sector of music, while ignoring all others.
300
Data that can be ranked as very bad, bad, moderate, good, very good.
What is ordinal data.
300
A researcher splits people into groups depending on their hair colour, then randomly selects 3 groups. From the three group chosen he randomly selects a portion on the people in each group.
What is multi-stage sampling?
300
_______ ,______ and ______ are the three componets to an ecperiment.
control, randomization, replication?
300
A list giving the exact height of each individual in the the classroom.
What is micro data.?
300
Name two of the four type of Bias Responses and give an example for each.
What is Leading, Loaded, non-respons and response.
400
The type of data, and its subgroup, that is gathered when a survey asks, "How many girls and boys attend ST.Marguerite D'Youville, secondary school"
What is numerical, discrete data?
400
The province wants to randomly choose 250 students. It randomly chooses five schools at each of those boards and then randomly chooses 50 students in each of those schools.
What is multistage sampling?
400
A researcher chooses two similar groups and has one group perform rigorous exercises once a day for 30 days, while the other group continues with their regular lifestyle. The exercise group is considered what type of group in this experiment?
What is the Treatment Group?
400
The relationship between an individual's height (years) and time (years).
What is, "As time increases, an individual's height also increases, until about 16-20, where it stops increasing"
400
Loading and leading questions are examples of
Loading and leading bias.
500
A survey question that solicits categorical, nominal data.
What is ....any question that has qualitative categories that cannot be ranked.
500
Explain the difference between a sample and census and examples of when you would use each.
answers vary
500
Questions on surveys should be free of ________, clear and concise.
What is BIAS?
500
A rocket is launched at various angles to see what horizontal distance can be reached. How far the rocket is launched is the _______________variable.