A. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
B. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
C. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
D. all of the above
Methods and Research
Of all of the steps in the research process the one that typically takes the most time is………….?
A. formulating the problem
B. selecting a research method
C. developing a hypothesis
D. evaluation of the results
E. data collection
In order for a variable to be measured, a researcher must provide a (n) ?
A. operational definition
B. quantitative theorem
C. theory
D. hypothesis
E. scale
Which of the following was not identified as a major research design ?
A. surveys
B. ethnography
C. field research
D. secondary research
E. experiments
…………involves the transformation of raw data into numbers to make it suitable for further analysis ?
A. Coding
B. Conceptualization
C. Factoring
D. Classification
E. Enumeration
Which of the following was not identified as one of the four conditions that must be met before a researcher can say that an independent variable or variables caused the change in the dependent variable ?
A. internal consistency
B. correlation
C. theory
D. time order
E. elimination of spuriousness
What research method is popular because it is comparatively inexpensive and well-suited to studying large numbers of people ?
A. interviews
B. participant observation
C. experiments
D. content analysis
E. surveys
Closed-ended s increase the return rate of the naire because………..?
A. the s is clearly worded
B. they cover the return postage
C. the answers are mutually exclusive
D. they are easy and quick to answer
E. they involve no thought on the part of the respondent.
A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their level of education and includes response categories of some high school high school and university violated which important rule for constructing close-ended items for naires ?
A. exhaustive
B. mutually exclusive
C. comprehensive
D. tangible
E. relevant
The major advantage of interviews is…………….?
A. that people are more likely to be honest
B. they are not time consuming
C. the interviewer can guess the age of the respondent
D. the response rate is high
E. that the researcher can ask more detailed s