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Introduction to Research Methodology
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Question: Types of knowledge
Answer: - Authority
- Common sense
- Personal experience
- Intuition
Question:Authority
Answer: Don't always base their conclusions on facts
Question:Personal experience
Answer: Important to generating new ideas, but is not legitimate evidence
Question:Issues with personal experience
Answer: - Sampling bias
- Observer bias
- Confounded variables
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Question:Sampling bias
Answer: Your observations are not representative for the population
Question:Observer bias
Answer: When your observations are influences by your expectations
Question:Confounded variables
Answer: When the factor of interest systematically varies with other effects
Question:Validity
Answer: Whether you measure what we intend to measure
Question:Problems with validity
Answer: - Sampling bias
- Observer bias
- Confounded variables
Question:Fraud
Answer: Making up findings
Question:Incompetent research
Answer: Research that is conducted so poorly it is rendered useless
Question:Research producers
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Answer: Professional scientist
Question:Applied research
Answer: Researcher does his work with a practical problem in mind
Question:Basic research
Answer: Believes that we are in a better position to repair, improve or
troubleshoot any system if we know how it is supposed to work in the first
place
Question:The scientific method
Answer: Look and see
Question:The empirical cycle
Answer: - Theory
- Prediction
- Testing
- Evaluation
- Observation
(Can start from any one of these phases)
Question:Mook's theory - data cycle
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Answer: - Data
- Testing
- Prediction confirmed or disconfirmed
- Evaluation
- Theory
- Prediction
Question:Mook's principle
Answer: We cannot relate anything to anything unless they both vary
Question:Irrefutable theories
Answer: - Theories that cannot be tested
- Not falsifiable
Question:Correction mechanisms
Answer: - Peer review
- Replication
Question:Scientific investigation
Answer: - Checks out all the possibilities one by one
Introduction to Research Methodology
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Question: Types of knowledge
Answer: - Authority
- Common sense
- Personal experience
- Intuition
Question:Authority
Answer: Don't always base their conclusions on facts
Question:Personal experience
Answer: Important to generating new ideas, but is not legitimate evidence
Question:Issues with personal experience
Answer: - Sampling bias
- Observer bias
- Confounded variables
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Question:Sampling bias
Answer: Your observations are not representative for the population
Question:Observer bias
Answer: When your observations are influences by your expectations
Question:Confounded variables
Answer: When the factor of interest systematically varies with other effects
Question:Validity
Answer: Whether you measure what we intend to measure
Question:Problems with validity
Answer: - Sampling bias
- Observer bias
- Confounded variables
Question:Fraud
Answer: Making up findings
Question:Incompetent research
Answer: Research that is conducted so poorly it is rendered useless
Question:Research producers
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Answer: Professional scientist
Question:Applied research
Answer: Researcher does his work with a practical problem in mind
Question:Basic research
Answer: Believes that we are in a better position to repair, improve or
troubleshoot any system if we know how it is supposed to work in the first
place
Question:The scientific method
Answer: Look and see
Question:The empirical cycle
Answer: - Theory
- Prediction
- Testing
- Evaluation
- Observation
(Can start from any one of these phases)
Question:Mook's theory - data cycle
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Answer: - Data
- Testing
- Prediction confirmed or disconfirmed
- Evaluation
- Theory
- Prediction
Question:Mook's principle
Answer: We cannot relate anything to anything unless they both vary
Question:Irrefutable theories
Answer: - Theories that cannot be tested
- Not falsifiable
Question:Correction mechanisms
Answer: - Peer review
- Replication
Question:Scientific investigation
Answer: - Checks out all the possibilities one by one
