A. reading a textual document quickly to understand the gist of it
B. gathering a sample from whoever you can see in a public place
C. scanning a table to identify general patterns and significant figures
D. keeping your eyes on research participants at all times
Related Mcqs:
- Which research technique would sociologists who adhere to the symbolic interactionist perspective use? most likely to employ ?
A. interviews
B. experiments
C. quantitative measurement
D. observation
E. surveys - In order to genuinely reflect a broad range of the population a survey must be based on precise___________?
A. representative sampling
B. experiments
C. surveys
D. hypotheses - An association between two variables which is in fact caused by other factor(s)is called a______________?
A. multiple regression
B. causal mechanism
C. spurious correlation
D. multinomial distribution - The first step in any sociological research project is to_____________?
A. collect data
B. define the problem
C. review previous research
D. formulate a hypothesis - A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their level of education and includes response categories of some high school high school and university violated which important rule for constructing close-ended items for naires ?
A. exhaustive
B. mutually exclusive
C. comprehensive
D. tangible
E. relevant - Which of these NOT viewed as a strength of surveys ?
A. they are often undertaken by specialist agencies
B. they offer an appearance of precision
C. the data is easy to quantify and analyses
D. large numbers of people can be studied - Sometimes the scientist personally participates in some experiment to observe it fully It is Known as_____________?
A. Personal studies
B. Participant-observer studies
C. Observational studies
D. None of these - According to Scott (1990) a document is authentic if it________________?
A. is a sincere and accurate account free from political bias
B. is representative of all the similar documents that did not survive
C. has both a literal and an interpretable meaning
D. is a sound original, or reliable copy of known authorship - A researcher was able to prove that, on average as age increases eyesight declines In research terminology this is called a (n) ?
A. variation
B. correlation
C. observation
D. measure of central tendency
E. spurious relationship - When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls we mean_________________?
A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process
