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Experiments, social surveys, and questionnaires are examples of what kind of sources?
Primary
This type of data was already collected by someone else.
Secondary
This would be an example of a personal document.
Anne Frank’s Diary
This is an example of an official statistic.
The US Census
The objective of quantitative data is to _______________ the incidence of various views and opinions in a chosen sample.
Measure
Being highly reliant on statistics that may not always reflect society is a disadvantage to what data?
Quantitative
Qualitative data says that this has a specific meaning and relevance structure for people.
Social Reality
The data type that seeks to measure and quantify uses this type of selected sample.
Randomly
The data type that seeks to describe and analyze the culture and behavior of humans uses this type of interpretive data analysis.
Non-statistical
Quantitative data uses this type of data.
Statistical
A psychiatrist seeks to prescribe medication like how quantitative data seeks to recommend what kind of course of action?
Final
Qualitative data doesn’t have conclusive findings. Their outcomes are investigative and/or what?
Exploratory
Quantitative data findings are usually ____________ and descriptive in nature.
Conclusive
Quantitative data is ____________________, unlike qualitative which uses harder, more time consuming and expensive methods.
Easy to do
Quantitative data results can be ______________________, meaning the findings of research on a sample can apply to a larger population.
Generalizable
Qualitative data gives the researcher freedom to let the study unfold more naturally, meaning it doesn’t have a _________________ research design plan.
Strict
Quantitative data ignores people’s ______________________ of the world around the meaning things have for different people.
Interpretation
Qualitative data is too ____________________ because the researcher is heavily involved in the research process which can influence their view of the study.
Subjective
Qualitative data produces this type of data as results are interpreted according to researchers own bias.
Soft data
Quantitative data ignores this as it does not always study people in their natural setting.
Context
Which method of research is better?
Neither
Questionnaires overlap which two sources of data?
Quantitative Primary
This is an overlap between qualitative and primary sources of data.
Participant observation
Unstructured interviews overlap which two sources of data?
Qualitative Primary
The NYT newspaper is which two sources of data?
Qualitative Secondary