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| Explain what is meant by "operationalizing" concepts |
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| To put a concept into a way in WHICH can be MEASURED AND UNDERSTAND!!!!! |
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| Explain what is meant by a PILOT STUDY |
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| A small scale survey carried out b4 the main one, to iron out any problems! |
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| Explain The term RELIABILITY...? |
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| when data can be repeated,, creating the same results, QUANITIVE DATA |
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| Explain what is meant by the Hawthorne Effect |
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When you know you are being watched so your behaviour, social actions change you act in a different way. Some act better to be socially Desirable
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| Identify or suggest two sources of secondary data? |
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- Diary
- Historical records
- music
- Films
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| Identify or suggest two sources of secondary data? |
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- Questionaire
- Observation
- interviews
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- attached to Qualitative data
- Data is valid it is true to real life
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| EXPLAIN QUANTITATIVE DATA |
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Numbers...
- Data is in Numerical form
- Often seen as more reliable data than Qualitative
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| EXPLAIN QUALITATIVE DATA? |
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Letters
- Data is in word form
- Harder to analysise and put in 2 stats/ theory
- often seen as more VALID data than quantitative
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