Research methods Mistakes Flashcards
Which of these sections of the write-up of a practical report is the only one in which the
significance statement for the research would not be stated?
Introduction
Which of these indicates the least probability of the null hypothesis being true?
p<0.001
Which of these is a type of logical reasoning used in science?
Induction
In which type of distribution is the mean greater than both the median and the mode?
Positively Skewed
Which of these would you not find in the appendices of the write-up of a practical report?
ideas for future related research
What is a principle for scientific enquiry?
Induction
What is not a measure of dispersion?
mean
In deductive reasoning what comes first?
Theory
What best describes an unstructured interview?
one where there are no pre-planned questions
What is a weakness of a quasi experiment?
control of the independent variable
In which section of a practical report would you find details of standardised instructions given to participants?
Appendices
When would it be best to use the median rather than the mean?
when there are few scores much lower than the rest.
When data contains anomalies, which of these is best to use?
median
In an experiment, which of the following best describes what ‘control’ refers to?
Apart from the IV, keeping as many other things the same as possible.
Outline one strength of using the standard deviation rather than the variance as the measure
of dispersion for the data collected in this study
The standard deviation is the square root of the variance. The advantage of this is that the answer is a figure that is much more typical of the actual difference (actual data collected) in the amount of snacking taking place with or without eyes on the fridge. The variance is a much bigger (untypical) figure as it is the sum of the differences in each individual’s snacking compared to the mean which is then squared (squaring makes
the answer a much bigger figure).
