RAT 5 - primary and secondary research

What is a case study?

• an in depth study of a particular group

• a participant observation

• looking at information from the research of others

• when you look deeply into a bag

Give an advantage of using case study as a research method.

• Mixed method allows for triangulation

• Could be unreliable

• Observer effect

• might be accused of making things up

Give a disadvantage of using case study as a research method.

• Could be unreliable

• Allows a theory to come from research carried out

• In depth study of real world situations

• Mixed method allows for triangulation.

How did the Miligram experiment test people?

• pretended to give people electric shocks

• pretended that people were in prison

• gave people weights to measure

• using a hypothesis

What is a longitudinal study?

• study the same group of people over a long time

• studying a group of people once

• studying a different group of people over a long period of time

• only studying tall people

What does attrition rate mean if carrying out a longitudinal study?

• the number of people who drop out

• the wearing down of people

• how many people don't always answer your questions

• how many people you ask

Give an example of secondary data.

• birth rates

• interviews

• questinnaires

• experiments

Give an advantage of using official statistics

• Save time and money as they have already been collected.

• Does not give us reasons why things happen

• Statistics are ‘socially constructed’

• Can not check their validity

Give a disadvantage of using official statistics

• Can not check their validity.

• Large samples

• Look at trends over time

• Mixed method

What is content analysis?

• The analysis of documents and counting the number of times something appears

• The analysis of other people's research

• The analysis of questionnaires

• The analysis of observations