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Types of Research
1. MTV hires you to study how young people responded to their
"Rock the Vote campaign. What type of research are you
conducting
a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Evaluative
d. Explanatory
2. Rank (1989) has reports that the birth rate of women who are
on welfare is similar among women who are not on welfare.
What type of research is this?
a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Evaluative
d. Explanatory
3. Most social science research reports that growth in the
opportunity to earn decent wages has led to the increase of in
employment of married American women. What type of
research is this?
a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Evaluative
d. Explanatory
4. To begin his research on homelessness, a research starts
spending evenings talking with homeless individuals and
asking them about their lives. He is interested in answering the
question what are the issues that concern homeless people?
What type of research is this?
a. Descriptive
b. Exploratory
c. Evaluative
d. Explanatory
It is a histogram
The mean is 2.3 (Closest is 2)
What is the median?
3
What is the mode?
3
If you have 30 staff and you want to select 10 of them for a simple
random sample, the probability of selection is?
a. .05
b. .13
c. .33
d. .67
e. 1.33
Deductive theory begins with which elements?
a. Social Theory
b. Hypothesis Testing
c. Descriptive Research
d. Empirical Generalizations
Which of the following is an example of a negative association
between variables?
a. The more study you do, the higher your grades.
b. The more money you spend, the more clothes you have.
c. As the quality of sex education increases, the amount of
unwanted pregnancies decreases.
d. As years of education increase, standards of living improve.
The belief that reality is made up of multiple layers, and is socially
constructed, is known as:
a. Positivism
b. Feminism
c. Interpretivism
d. Postpositivism
The EU SILC is administered to a sample of European residents, but it
hopes to identify the features of the European population as a whole.
The EU SILC hopes for:
a. Validity
b. Generalizability
c. Reflexivity
d. Reliability