Hypothesis refers to

• The outcome of an experiment

• A conclusion drawn from an experiment

• A form of bias in which the subject tries to outuess the experimente

• A tentative statement about the relationship

Statistics is used by researchers to

• Analyze the empirical data collected in a study

• Make their findings sound better

• Operationally define their variables

• Ensure the study comes out the way it was intended

A literature review requires

• Planning

• odd & clear writing

• Lot of rewriting

• All

A literature review is based on the assumption that

• Copy from the work of others

• Knowledge accumulates and learns from the work

• Knowledge disaccumulates

• None

Which of the following statement is not true?

• A research proposal is a document that presents a plan for a project

• A research proposal shows that the researcher is capable of successfully conducting the

  proposed research project

• A research proposal is an unorganized and unplanned project

• A research proposal is just like a research report and written before the research project

Preliminary data collection is a part of the

• Descriptive research

• Exploratory research

• Applied research

• Explanatory research

Conducting surveys is the most common method of

• Primary data

• Secondary data

• Qualitative data

• None

Personal interviews conducted in shopping malls are known as

• Mall interviews

• Mall intercept interviews

• Brief interviews

• None

A list of questions which is handed over to the respondent, who reads the questions and

records the answers himself is known as the

• Interview schedule

• Questionnaire

• Interview

• All

To obtain the freest opinion of the respondent, when we ask General question before a specific

question then this procedure is called as the

• Research technique

• Qualitative technique

• Funnel technique

• Quantitative technique