Survey Research Tuesday, October 16, 2018 3:24 PM On slide 5, the answer for the question: Rosemary is conducting a study in which she intends to follow a random selection of teens over a five-year period. Each year she will randomly sample 300 individuals from a total of 25 high schools. What form of research is she performing? Is Cohort. However, I class Oral posed the same question and said the answer is trend study, because the students are not considered a cohort because there have no shared experience. Ethical Issue · When we are dealing with ethics wefire dealing with 3 things: Our research demonstrates that we respect the individual Element of justice, don't just do research for the sake of. Must be a purpose- either exploring, explaining, describing something. Ex improve scholarship, lives, policy recommendations · Concerned for the welfare- we want to make sure not hurting people any way- emotional, psychological, physical Analyzing cases: . Look out for breaches around 6 ethical infractions (check slides) When you read Miligram and Humphry study . Might demonstrate we are not concerned with welfare, justice, or don't respect people · Disclosure- if you disclose info in a way that with reveal identity- don't care about welfare. If your research is going to endanger someonefis life- not voluntary, no respect for subjects. Harm- not concerned welfare. Confidentiality- same as disclosure- deception shows lack of respect. Debriefing always. Questions: 1. Categories such as chocolate and vanilla used to describe fav ice cream are Attributes (Variable would be favorite ice cream) 2. How was deception used in Miligram study? Electric shocks were NOT being administered to individuals 3. Indexes and scales designed to provide what type of measurement of given variables? Ordinal 4. The unit about which info is collected and which provides the basis of analysis is Element (and sampling unit are the same thing) 5. Knowledge for knowledgefis sake best describes Pure research 6. The static group comparison refers to Group 3 and 4 Read chapter 1 to7 Survey Research (Final exam, not on midterm)
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