CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Bias, Ebay, Access Network
24 Jul 2020
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Structured interviews - exam: set list of questions- questions read in order to compare responses, predetermined responses, positivist approach, data expressed quantitatively ambiguous" questions to compare results. Uniformity: assumes minimized bias, trained interviewers, close-ended questions - lack of flexibility to close ended questions, mutually exclusive (exam) there is no overlap over the answers. People can only choose one answers (yes, no, don"t know) so every person can choose one of these categories: exhaustive (exam) Sampling (exam: sampling: process of selecting cases from larger groups (ex. York university students: both qualitative & quantitative, probably (random) quantitative, we randomly select cases because we want to generalize our findings to a bigger population, non-probability (non-random) qualitative, not random sampling. Purposive & snowball: non-random sampling, purposive: researcher chooses individuals based on desired characteristics, snowball: participants refers researcher to another individual with same traits great way to access network of people.
