PET Analysis

Question 1

What are the practical issues of research?

Answer 1

• Time & money (resources)
• Funding bodies (different types of data required)
• Personal skills & characteristics (limited)
• Subject matter (could be difficult to study)

Question 2

What are the ethical issues of research?

Answer 2

• Consent (honesty)
• Confidentiality (negative effects)
• Danger & harm (no illegal or immoral situations)
• Vulnerable groups (age, gender, disability, ethnicity, etc)
• Covert research (deceit, lack of consent, etc)

Question 3

What are the theoretical issues of research?

Answer 3

• Reliability (replicable)
• Validity (truthfulness)
• Representative (participant sample & big group)
• Positivists (scientific, quantitative)
• Interpretivists (how individuals interpret their world)