Structured Interviews (Advantages)

Question 1

What’s one advantage of structured Interviews

Answer 1

high response rate

Question 2

what’s one example of SI having a high response rate

Answer 2

for example out of 987 people young and willmott approached for their study, only 54 refused to be interviewed. this may be because people find it harder to turn down a face to face request

Question 3

why is having a high response rate a theoretical advantage

Answer 3

high response rates help to produce a more representative result and therefore a better basis for making generalisations

Question 4

what’s one theoretical Advantages of SI

Answer 4

they’re reliable

Question 5

why are SI seen as reliable

Answer 5

they’re seen as reliable because it is easy for the researchers to standardise and control them as they can ensure that each interview is conducted in precisely the same way, with the same questions, in the same order. therefore, any other researcher following the same procedures should get similar results.

Question 6

what’s one practical advantage

Answer 6

the results are easily quantified because they use close ended questions with coded answers. this makes them suitable for hypothesis testing