Research Design Flashcards

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What are the three things we need to know before designing a research project?

A
  1. Purpose of research
  2. Units of analysis
  3. The time dimension
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What are the three purposes of research?

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  1. Exploration
  2. Description
  3. Explanation
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What questions do “description” purposes aim to answer?

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What, where, when and how

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4
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What are the ways of explaining causal relationships in social research?

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  1. Correlation
  2. Time order
  3. Non-spurious relationships
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5
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Explain correlation

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When two variables are correlated, changes in one variable are associated with changes in the other

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True or false: Correlation is the same as causality

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False, causality is very hard to prove. There are 10+ variables in an experiment so its hard to pinpoint what caused what.

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When the correlation between two variables shown in data is actually caused by a third party, it is called what?

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A spurious relationship

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