POL SCI 137A Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sampling Frame, Informed Consent
26 Jan 2017
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Report of board of scientific affairs" advisory group on the conduct of research on the. Subject recruitment: large and diversa sample at low cost (email messages or posting on web site) > democratized data collection, allowing students and smaller schools to contribute to psychological research. Make visible interesting psychological phenomena difficult to study in traditional settings. Observing social behavior from archives of communication. Researchers can be less obtrusive when conducting observation online. Low marginal costs of each additional research subject > no need for human to give instructions, supervise etc. But more complex experimental logic is beyond capabilities of questionnaire generators. Allows examination of the use of internet as social phenomenon (e. g. impact of internet on individuals) No sampling frame currently exists that provides a random sample of internet users. Self selection, drop out, low response rates. Experimenters lose control over verification of identities, age or gender, cannot tailor instructions nor monitor behavior etc.
