PFP 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Participant Observation, General Social Survey, Complex Instruction Set Computing
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Primary - facts & observations that researchers gather for the purpose of a study. Secondary - data that was collected before for a different investor. Methods of collecting data (page 31: survey research, experiments, participant / non - participant observation, case studies. The systematic collection of respondents answers to ask in interviews (face to face) Generally used to gather info about attitudes characteristic /behaviours. Used in physical, biological and social sciences. An investigator into a change ( variable) into a process and makes measure or observations in order to evaluate the effects of the change. Scientists test hypotheses about how two or more variables (factors that may change ) are related. Field experiments are conducted in real-world settings. Qualitative- used to study topics where there is little known about the topic. Participant and non - p observation are qual in nature. Quantitative- # data gathered by government agencies and research resulting in tablets and figures and statistical summaries.
