SY281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fieldnotes
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How will you recognize it when you encounter the data, how will you collect. Or qn theory + observation to confirm. Study design: are we observing at one place at one time or several times several places, etc. What"s the big picture of what we"re planning on doing it. What are you going to do with the data after you"ve collected it. Ethics what ethics might be involved in your plan for the data in which you"re collecting and the way you want to collect it. Method of data analysis: some form of textual or fieldnotes analysis. How are data. we going to analyze our text. In the process of doing these things you are setting conscious limitations and exclusions: you are doing a study in this particular group of people/place/etc. , aware that it does not represent the entire population. Reporting: science is not just for the researcher but for everyone.
