HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Work Group, Dynamical System, Thick Description
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Learn and use the correct methods: research methods are a skill to be learned, training and practice are needed, mentoring from experience researchers. What you learn depends on what you ask: research questions should be carefully formulated to address a specific issue, study design = research aims, need to gather the information to answer the questions. Within each method, there are different methods and tools an designs we can use to help us reach maximize of generalizability/transferability: example: drunk drivers hypothesis: they do worse on scoring test than those who do not. Lecture 2: it"s the limitation and the best one to use for that research. Example: testing for bmi (calculation to it) people can be allocated into groups of bmi depending on the range they are in: qualitative. Example: perceptions/emotional states cancer survivors have after they finish their treatment.
