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What research method is popular because it is comparatively inexpensive and well-suited to studying large numbers of people
—>> participant observation
surveys
experiments
content analysis
A mean, median and mode are all examples of
measures of correlation
measures of variation
measures of coefficients
—>> measures of central tendency
Reading a number of books and journals regarding crime in Canada is a good example of
non-participant observation
—>> secondary research
ethnography
field research
The first step in any research is to ……
—>> develop a research design
choose a data collection technique
review the findings
identify a problem
Of all of the steps in the research process, the one that typically takes the most time is ……
evaluation of the results
selecting a research method
developing a hypothesis
—>> data collection
…… involves the transformation of raw data into numbers to make it suitable for further analysis
Enumeration
Conceptualization
—>> Coding
Factoring
The concepts in a hypothesis are stated as
populations
indices
—>> ideas
theories
Research by …found that a small number of chronic recidivists were responsible for a large majority of serious violent crime
Marvin Wolfgang
—>> Marcus Felson
Jack Katz
Ronald V. Clarke
The major advantage of interviews is ……
—>> that the researcher can ask more detailed questions
that people are more likely to be honest
the interviewer can guess the age of the respondent
they are not time consuming
…….is especially valuable when aspects of the social setting are beyond the control of the researcher
one-group pretest-posttest design
case study
—>> controlled experiment
quasi-experimental design
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