COMM88 Final (Survey Research)

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What are the primary goals of SR?
 
to identify attitudes/beliefs in a population and examine relationship between the attitude...
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what are the three ways to administer a survey?
 
-Self administer   ex. mail survey, handout, online survey, email-Interview survey  ...
3
what are the advantages/ disadvantages of mail surveys and how can you avoid them?
 
Advantages: cheap, easy, no interviewer influenceDisadvantages: low response rate (esp mail),...
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what are the methods of interview survey?
 
face to face and telephone
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what are the advantages/ disadvantages of interview surveys?
 
FTF advantages: can you open ended questions, probe for depth, higher response rateFTF disadvantages:...
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what are the time differentiating surveys?
 
Cross-sectional studiesLongitudinal studies
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what are the different kinds of longitudinal studies and what do they measure?
 
Panel (same people each time)     measures change in individuals over timeTrend...
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how can question wording affect responses?
 
-framing-sclae-close vs. open ended-direct vs. indirect-order-formatting
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how can scale affect responses?
 
can have diff responses if scale is per say -5-5 rather than 0-10
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how can order of questions affect responses?
 
Should put personal /sensitive and boring questions last -funnel vs introverted funnel...
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what are contingency and filter questions?
 
contingency questions: meant for only part of pop. to respond i.e. if yes answer questions...
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how do you compare variables if they are both categorical?
 
calculate and compare percentages for cetgories
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how do you compare variables if IV is categorical and DV is continuous?
 
do a category-mean comparison using mean scores for DV
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how do you compare variables if they are both continuos?
 
convert IV to categorical i.e. score above mean is one category and scores below mean are other...
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how is correlation measured and what can it conclude?
 
measures by r which ranges from -1 to 1. -1 means strong neg and 1 means strong pos correlationcorrelation...
18
how can you solve third variable problem?
 
use partial correlation where you measure potential third variable. If you keep third variable...
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how can you solve casual direction problem?
 
use a longitudinal study with a cross lagged panel design. 
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what is a cross lagged panel design?
 
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21
what are some problems with memory in survey research and how can you avoid them?
 
People may not be able to recall events from past and if they do they may be distorted to maintain...
22
what are response biases that participants can have?
 
-social desirability-acquiescence response set (more likely to answer yes or true)- position...
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how can you pretest your questions and why should you?
 
- cognitive interviewing: collect verbal response during or after pretest to identify problems...

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