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Chapter 2 of Research Design

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show Attributes of sampling units, events, or conditions that can take on two or more values, or observed or measured events or conditions that vary or are likely to vary.  
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Varied Replication   show
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Working Hypotheses   show
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Operational Definitions   show
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show The quality of economy in a statement or proposition, so that it is not overly wordy or unduly complex.  
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show Research designed to assess the repeat-ability of a result.  
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show Making a chance discovery.  
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show The meaning of a variable in abstract or conceptual terms.  
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Theory   show
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show An event or a condition the researcher observes or measures or plans to investigate that is likely to vary.  
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Coherence   show
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show Abstract expression, term, or concept that is formulated ("constructed") to serve as a casual or descriptive explanation.  
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show Included the initial hunches, questions, or insights and the resulting conjectural statements or suppositions that give direction to researchers' observations.  
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show Included the empirical evaluation of conjectural statements or suppositions and the evidence-based defense of conclusions and generalizations.  
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Dependent Variable   show
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show Karl Popper's proposition that a conjecture or theoretical assertion is scientific only if it can be stated in such a way that it can, if incorrect, be refuted by some empirical means.  
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Hypothesis   show
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show Strategies or circumstances that lead to testable hypotheses.  
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Independent Variable   show
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Moderator Variables   show
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show The principle that explanations should be as parsimonious as possible.  
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Variables   show
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show Repeating (replicating) a previous study but with some new twist.  
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Working Hypotheses   show
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Operational Definitions   show
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show The quality of economy in a statement or proposition, so that it is not overly wordy or unduly complex.  
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Replication   show
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show Making a chance discovery  
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Theoretical Definitions   show
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Theory   show
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show An event or a condition the researcher observes or measures or plans to investigate that is likely to vary.  
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Coherence   show
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Construct   show
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show Included the initial hunches, questions, or insights and the resulting conjectural statements or suppositions that give direction to researchers observations.  
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Context of Justification   show
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show A variable the changes in which are viewed as dependent on changes in one or more other variables.  
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show The experimenter's working hypothesis; also an alternative to the null hypothesis (Ho) in null hypothesis significance testing.  
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