SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Likert Scale, Social Desirability Bias, Open Data
27 Jan 2014
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A systematic way to ask a specific set of questions and are almost exclusively quan methods and is deductive. Research design in survey based research: general inquiry: subject you want to study. Hypothesis: deductive and broad and looking for a relationship between variables. You can survey large samples because you can look at larger amounts because you are asking specific questions. Highly standardized because survey relies on using the exact same question fr every participant and interviewee. Does yield to insight to methods that qual methods do; no opportunities for follow up questions or development of narrative, context is often lost. Invest time and effort in developing surveys and people question why you are asking these type of questions and it might be a disadvantaged. Accompanied by same ethical considerations as all other methods ie) voluntary ongoing consent, told purposes of study, respondents should know if they are granted anonyminity and confidentiality.
