test 2

Question 1

descriptive survey

Answer 1

describing or reporting current conditions or specific phenomena

Question 2

hite report is…

Answer 2

shere hite sent out 100,000 surveys and received 4,500 in return determining a high percentage of women aren’t satisfied in relationships, experience harassment, having extramarital affairs

Question 2

analytic survey

Answer 2

looking for relationship between variables

Question 2

conducting survey research step #1

Answer 2

1. picking questions

Question 3

types of questions for survey research

Answer 3

1. nominal (gender, ethnicity)
2. ordinal (year in school, socio status)
3. interval
4. ratio
5. open ended

Question 4

issues with the hite report

Answer 4

1. selection bias (survey sent to orgs and group leaders
2. non-response bias (large number of people didn’t respond to the study (4.5%)

Question 5

conducting survey research step #2

Answer 5

creating clear questions

Question 6

conducting survey research step #4

Answer 6

data processing and analysis (can you statistically answer the hypothesis?)

Question 7

conducting survey research step #3

Answer 7

study design

Question 8

types of study design

Answer 8

• cross sectional
• longitudinal survey design (trend, cohort, panel)

Question 9

conducting survey research step #5

Answer 9

pilot testing-small scale test run for planned piece of research

Question 10

advantages of survey research

Answer 10

realistic settings, reasonable cost, large amount of data, data collection easy, not constrained by geographic boundaries

Question 11

disadvantages of survey research

Answer 11

hard to establish causality due to no control over iv, difficulty recalling attitudes, some difficult to conduct, small changes in wording make huge impact