Research methods

What is sociology?

• it studies Humans and everything they do.

• It studies humans and animals and human behavior

• It studies human society and human behavior

• It studies everything at Sunset

What is a hypothesis?

• an educated guess

• an absolute solution

• a random guess

• an experiment

What is a target population?

• the whole group you want to study or describe

• the population that is practicing for the Hunger Games

• population inside the classroom

• part of the group you want to study or describe

What is a sample in research?

• the whole target population

• a piece of food you get to try

• only part of the target population

• an educated guess

Quantitative data refers to what?

• opinion based

• open questions

• statistics and numbers

• descriptive

Correlational research tries to identify relationship between two variables

• True

• False

Quantitative research is an:

• Existential, mechanical, and objective data expressed usually by words.

• Empirical, measurable and observable data expressed numerically 

Commonly used sampling frames include

Define the two terms:

1. Survey population

2. Sampling frame.

A researcher wants to investigate the IQ levels of primary school students in LIS MSA. Which of the following should she consider in order to have a more generalizable sample?

• Only take male students in the school

• Take a few students from both primary and high school and make comparisons

• Have equal number of male and female students from all the primary classes.