quantitative chapter 11

Question 1

What is generalizability when asking to conduct a survey?

Answer 1

Can a sample reflect the general population?

Question 2

In order to see how people change over time, you need to employ a

Answer 2

Longditudal survey design, where you can survey people periodically or routinely over time

Question 3

a survey is

Answer 3

a social scientific method for gathering quantifiable information about a specific group of people by asking the group members questions

Question 4

the two types of surveys, similar to quant and qual, are

Answer 4

descriptive and analytical

Question 5

do not open your survery with

Answer 5

the most controversial question right off the bat - primacy will take effect

Question 6

in order to make a clear survey, you want to avoid this and this:

Answer 6

vague questions and Murphy’s Law

Question 7

a survey that is used to get information from participants at one point in time is called:

Answer 7

a cross-sectional survey design

Question 8

an accelerated longitudinal design is when

Answer 8

a researcher wants to see how things change over a short period of time. it can track age groups as well as how the differing age groups change?

Question 9

if we have a 13% response rate, the other 87% is

Answer 9

unit nonresponse

Question 10

what is item nonresponse?

Answer 10

when an individual participant fails individual or groups of questions

Question 11

what are the three things to keep in mind when translating a survey?

Answer 11

semantic (meaning), conceptual, and normative equivalence