Data Analysis Quiz

What is the mode from this data?

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What method is used when a researcher sends questionnaires to 100 churches across America to find common religious behaviors?

• Survey

• Ethnography

• Field based Experiment

• Correlation study

Which research method involves a researcher taking a job as a teacher in a local school to study interactions between teachers and students?

• Survey

• Ethnography

• Field based Experiment

• Correlation study

What is the research method called when a researcher creates a fake setting to study how authority influences individuals to follow directions?

• Survey

• Ethnography

• Field based Experiment

• Correlation study

Which method is used to study the similarities and differences between identical twins adopted into different households?

• Survey

• Ethnography

• Field based Experiment

• Correlation study

This is the only research option if we want to draw a conclusion about the cause and effects of variables.

• Experiment

• Data Analysis

• Surveys

• Field Research/Observation

This type of research can show us relationships, but cannot tell us cause and effect.

• Experiment

• Interviews

• Observation only

• Correlation

This perspective/paradigm fails to adequately explain how change can take place, especially when this change isn't always good.

• Functionalism

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Conflict Theory

• Structuralism

If we use measures of central tendency to understand behavior, we are conducting this type of research.

• Qualitative

• Case Study

• Quantitative

• Observations

Recognizing that we are social beings that are part of a larger historical social context would be the application of this concept.

• Sociological Integration

• Sociological Hygiene

• Sociological Conceptualization

• Sociological Perspective