Question: A focus group usually consists of about how many participants? Answer: Focus groups usually consist of 6 to 12 participants. A focus group is a group meeting that consists of demographically similar people. These people are asked about their views, have different discussions about an idea, a new product or something else. The … Continue reading Topic 47: DQ#2- Focus group
Name a population (other than those mentioned in the topic) for which snowball sampling might be better than other types of sampling. Explain the reason(s) for your answer. My first instinct is to say that you are going to be looking for people who do not particularly care to have the information which you are … Continue reading Week 7 Blog Post, Topic 29 Nonprobability Sampling and Qualitative Research, Discussion Question 2
Question: What is the name of the process through which an interviewer can consider any personal biases? Answer: self-disclosure As a reminder, one of the most used ways that information is gathered in qualitative research is through an interview process. This process can be either structured or unstructured, but either way personal biases of the … Continue reading Topic 46, Q7: Interviewer Bias
Discussion Question Have you ever used a pre-experimental design (e.g., tried doing something in a new way and observing for its effects without a control group) in any of your professional or everyday activities? If so, briefly describe it. Discuss whether your activity shed light on a cause-and-effect relationship. Response One of the applications that … Continue reading Topic 55, DQ2: Pre-experimental Design
Question: Have you ever taken an achievement test in which the content emphasized was different than the content you concentrated on while studying for the test? If so, describe the discrepancy and speculate on what caused it. I have taken a test and studied for the wrong thing. Last semester I had a test that … Continue reading Topic 36, DQ2: Emphasized Content and What is Studied
Discussion Question Suppose a researcher gave a series of wellness workshops over a six-month period and then determined that five of the participants had quit smoking during the six-month period. The researcher’s interpretation was that the workshops caused the decrease in smoking. Is this interpretation flawed? Explain. Response I think that on the surface this … Continue reading Topic 53, DQ1: Flawed Interpretations?
Discussion Question Suppose you drew a random sample of all licensed clinical psychologists in your community to interview by phone. On the days you made the phone calls, some of the psychologists were not available to be interviewed, so you drew replacements for them at random from the population of licensed clinical psychologists. Speculate on … Continue reading Topic 25, DQ 3: Biased and Unbiased Sampling
Topic review question: What does stratification mean in random sampling? Stratification or stratified random sampling is a method that is used where the population of a group starts to divide into smaller groups. These sub- groups are known as strata. When you stratify a population, you begin to create different layers. This has been … Continue reading Topic 27, TQ: Stratification in Random Sampling
Discussion Question: Suppose a friend was planning to use simple random sampling in a research project from which he or she wants to generalize to all students on a campus. Would you recommend drawing names from a hat or using a table of random numbers? Why? My Answer: I believe that the friend would want to use … Continue reading Topic 26 DQ 1 Simple Random & Systematic Sampling
March 12 marks the middle of this semester. We are almost halfway through. That also means it’s time for the midterm exam. Additionally, we have a small discussion this week. It includes responses to last week’s discussion and the start of a new one. Finally, I’d appreciate your feedback on a survey. It can help … Continue reading Week 8: MidTerm and Discussion