Foundations of Research Methods - pages 4-29
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One of the most important early steps in a research project is the conducting of the literature review. What is the literature review?
The language of research
- Inferences and probabilities
The language of research
- Causal relationship
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The attributes of a variable should be both exhaustive and mutually exclusive
Mutually exclusive: the property of a variable that ensures that the respondent is not able to assign two attributes simultaneously. For example, gender is a variable with mutually exclusive options if it is impossible for the respondents to simultaneously claim to be both male and female.
A distinction is often made between two broad methods of reasoning known as the deductive and inductive approaches
- Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more spcific.
- Inductive reasoning works the other way, moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories.
What is the ' hourglass' structure of research?
·Narrow down focus in operationalization
·Observe and analyze data
·Reach conclusions
·Generalize back to question
A component of a research study is the research question
What is a hypothesis?
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