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True experiments are designed to maximize:
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The single most important requirement for obtaining an adequate response rate to a mailed survey is:
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What guideline does the following question violate in terms of guidelines for writing questions: "Do you favr or oppose tougher drug fines and longer mandatory sentences?
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In a regression of analysis, if r = 0 then:
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Grounded theory requires analysts to:
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Intensive interviewing and focus groups should be conducted until:
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In an experiment, the posttest measures:
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When 1936 Literary Digest poll found overwhelming support for Alfred Landon's presidential bid over Roosevelt, made enormous prediction Landon would defeat and win. What are probably sources for error that explain their mistake?
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Which level of measurement has a value that signifies absolutely no amount of whatever variable it indicates?
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Focus groups are useful for all of the following but: developing hypotheses, assessing range of opinions about issue, investigating meaning of results, generalizing findings, developing survey questions
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When researchers measure an unchanging phenomenon at two different times, the degree to which the two measurements are related is called:
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Textbook indicates that the "Achilles heel" of true experimental design is:
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Progressive focusing involves:
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A member of a social setting who can provide access to that setting for a researcher is known as a:
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The total number of cases in a distribution is called:
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A researcher decided to study people who hunt in a nearby forest. Asks a hunter to do interview. Then asks friend for other people. Then asks those people for more names. This sampling technique is:
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Researcher B collects the number of new building permits issued in Sunny City every 5 years prior to new development controls, and 5 yearsa after new controls in place. Wants to know if development controls changed number of building permits. design:
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Anonymity exists when:
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Filter questions are used primarily to:
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Although the volume of datat collected in qualitative analysis can overwhelm an inexperienced researcher, Schutt recommends which of the following to keep control of data?
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a saturation point is reached
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non-response rate was high, sample was not representative of the population, failed to use probability sampling techniques
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time series
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gatekeeper
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internal validity
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induce theory from observations
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limit certain survey questions to competent subgroups of respondents
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the dependent variable
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the base number N
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test-retest reliability
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sending a follow-up email to nonrespondents
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no identifying information is ever collected to link respondent to responses
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maintain a disciplined transcription schedule
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There is no linear correlation
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refining the study focus by interacting with data during the study period
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avoid double-barreled questions
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snowball sampling
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generalizability
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generalizing findings
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ratio
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When a distribution contains outliers, what measure of central tendency is most appropriate?
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In the population of New Town 30% of people work for Bigg Corp, 30 for public sector and 40 self employed. In survey of 100 residents, 40 for Bigg 40 public 20 self. sample was:
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A researcher studying a small town reliiousity in US randomly selected 10 states. From states 1/10 of counties. From counties 1/10 of cities with populations smaller than 10k. From that, ten practitioners. Which is NOT a cluster?
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A researcher wants to explore the ways in which we build trust in online gaming. She submerses self in language + customs of an online gaming world, playing every day to get grasp on virtual surroundings. She uses what methodology?
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While studying results of welfare, place falls into recession. Posttest find program unsuccessful. Designers claim inconclusive because of internal validity. Which type of internal validity is the problem?
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Which of the following are used to summarize the central tendency of quantitative variables?
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"Location in which respondent was born" is an example of what level of measurement?
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A survey that takes measurements from all elements of a population is known as a:
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Professor Smith is conducting research on bullying and has developed a research design that includes both observations at a local school and survey interviews with students. This is a prime example of:
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The list from which elements of a population are selected for a sample is known as the:

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