Quantitative research

Question 1

Researcher collects and analyzes numerical data for the study in order to describe and explain the phenomena studied

Answer 1

Definition of quantitative research

Question 2

What to quantitative research focus on?

Answer 2

Numbers and generalizeable data

Question 3

What are the three goals of quantitative research?

Answer 3

Description, prediction and confirmation of hypothesis

Question 4

What are the origins of quantitative research?

Answer 4

Natural sciences

Question 5

6 characteristics of quantitative research

Answer 5

1. Positivism
2. Objectivity
3. Numerical data findings
4. deductive process generalization
5. Examine causes and effect.
6. Usually many numerical data

Question 6

Group of the participants of the research

Answer 6

Sample

Question 7

All the people who could be in the research

Answer 7

Population

Question 8

Questions with fixed responses

Answer 8

Close ended formats

Question 9

Questions without fixed responses

Answer 9

open ended format

Question 10

Random selection of the sample

Answer 10

Quantitative research method

Question 11

Research tools in quantitative research

Answer 11

Survey and questionnaire

Question 12

Research method in which subjects respond to a series of items in a questionnair and the process of collecting and analyze the answer

Answer 12

survey

Question 13

a series of written questions a researcher supplies to subjects requesting their response

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Questionnaire

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5 points in a questionnaire

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1. title
2. identifiers
3. instructions
4. institution
5. objective

Question 15

5 steps to conduct a survey

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1. Plan and design
2. construct and refine survey instruments
3. collect survey data
4. enter and clean data
5. analyze and interpret

Question 16

a question asking two or more things in one question

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Double-barreled question

Question 17

when participants respond in a way to make themselves look good

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Social desirability bias

avoid by ensuring anonymity

Question 18

tendency to respond in a specific way

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response set

avoid by including multiple question types

Question 19

What are Dichotomous question?

Answer 19

agree/disagree, True/false, Yes/no

Question 20

what are contingency questions?

Answer 20

follow up questions; if yes, about how many times have you smoked

Question 21

What is a nominal question?

Answer 21

number next to the answer has no meaning.
Ex: Gender
1=masculine
2=feminine
3=other

Question 22

rank the following artists according to your preferences from the best to worst being 1 the first choice.” What type of question?

Answer 22

ordinal question

Question 23

“1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree, 3=neutral” what type of question?

Answer 23

Likert response scale

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4 Advantages of quantitative research

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1. Generalizable data
2. Geographically spread samples
3. Objectivity
4. Ethical advantages

Question 25

3 disadvantages of quantitative research

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1. Time consuming
2. expensive
3. Generalization, but does not explain why

Question 26

raw data collected through research

Answer 26

Raw scores

Question 27

5 steps to data collection, analysis and presentation

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1. Develop and classify code categories
2. codebook
3. enter the data
4. clean the data
5. analyze the data seeing the correlations

Question 28

is it possible to lie with statistics?

Answer 28

yes

Question 29

5 ways to lie with statistics

Answer 29

1. Data selection
2. data interpretation
3. “wrong” use of graphs
4. “wrong” source
5. “wrong” dissemination