SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Double Negative, Leading Question, Jargon
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Questionnaire: respondants read questions themselves and mark their own answers, ex. course evaluations. Structured interview: an interviewer reads questions from an interview schedule to the respondent and records the respondent"s answers, ex. The series of questions that are followed in order with a set of possible responses. Interviewer error in asking a question: the interviewer will not correctly ask the question. In order to reduce this error, you have to clearly state questions and a trained interviewer. In order to remove this error, you have to have a structured interview: an interview in which all respondents are asked exactly the same questions in the same order with the aid of a formal interview schedule. Interviewer error in recording information: this is when the interviewer is not able to record answers. Misunderstanding on the part of the respondent: when this happens, it could mean that your results become inaccurate because for ex.
