Objective of The Survey
The type of hypothesis most commonly used in social science
What is a Casual Hypothesis?
The population you need to survey
What is your target population?
People who have average views in a population
What are typical people?
Literally just selecting random people
What is a simple-random sample?
The sampling error can only be calculated from this type of sample
What is a probability sample?
The process of measuring concepts
What is operationalization?
What you should do if you think you'll need to draw conclusions based on subgroups
What is oversampling?
a method from surveying where people actively choose to get involved and participate
What are volunteer subjects?
Picking a random number as the first sample and then specified numbers after that (ex. every 20 after 13)
What is systematic selection procedure?
This error can occur when there are issues with the response rate
What is the wrong population is sampled?
What are alternate views?
A type of survey where people are interviewed only one time
What is a cross-section survey?
A survey where numbers of specific types of people are sought out specifically
What is quota sampling?
Portioning off samples that are more easily accessible and then randomly selecting within those samples
What is stratifying the sample?
This error occurs when you miss a portion of the population
What is a noncoverage error?
What is the design of the survey?
A type of survey were the same people are interviewed repeatedly
What is a panel study?
A type of sampling where the most accessible people are surveyed
What is haphazard sampling?
Portioning off samples by geographical area and then sampling within those
What is clustering the sample?
Samples must fit these three criteria to be representative
What are the interviewer cannot select responders, the population is large, and there are enough clusters
The most desirable way to this about the relationship between theory and data
What is the middle ground?
What are face-to-face, over the phone interviews, and questionnaires?
A type of sampling where key decision makers are surveyed
What is purposive samples?
What is multistage sampling
The first reduces the sample error, and the second increases it
What are stratifying and clustering?