What research method is best described with this statement:
“The participants often enjoy the opportunity to talk about their ideas to someone who is a non-critical listener.”
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“The researcher must be there when the thing being investigated takes place; anything that happens in the researcher’s absence is not known. “
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It is often difficult or impossible to control all the relevant variables. “
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“They are flexible — the researcher can adjust a line of inquiry or clarify a point as the it (the method) progresses.”
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“Self-administration variants require no special social skills of the researcher.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“The only research strategy that can prove causal relationships.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“They provide a wide and inclusive coverage of people or events, so that the results are likely to be representative of the wider population. This means that generalized conclusions can be drawn. “
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“Interpretation of the data is more closely tied to the researchers (their identity, backgrounds, assumptions and beliefs)… . This means that their conclusions must much more tentative … .”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It is the normally expected mode of research in some computing areas, such as computer science and software engineering.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It gives a rich, detailed picture of a particular situation or work practices, putting events or practices into context rather than abstracting one or two aspects in isolation.”
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“It can generate data about things that most participants are normally unaware of or would regard as mundane, such as the time wasted on deleting unnecessary emails of logging onto a network using authentication protocols. “
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It is not suited to people who are unwilling to work democratically with others in complex, problematic and unpredictable real-world situations. “
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“It provides (seeming) scientific respectability. Some people believe generating and analysing this data is the only valid form of research.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“They provide snapshots of particular points in time, rather than examining ongoing processes and change. “
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It may produce perishable research. Rapid advances in technology can invalidate the research results before they have been tried out in a real-life context or even before they have been written up and published.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“It makes high demands of the researcher: time, copious data to be managed, analysed and written up, working alone in strange settings, handling social relations, persuading others to open up to you, dealing with the ethical aspects of observing others, and so on. “
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“(They) are often more economical than other data generation methods. A large amount of data can be generated for relatively low costs of materials and time.”
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What research method is best described with this statement:
“They are artificial — the object know they are speaking on the record, and they may find a voice recorder or video recorder inhibiting, and may therefore answer in a certain way and not be true to their feelings.”
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What research strategy is best described with this statement:
“They are a well-established strategy, seen by many as the most ‘scientific’ and therefore most acceptable approach. Where people have not received any formal research methods training, this is often the only research strategy they know. “
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