MSCN4015 Revision

A study is to compare the effectiveness of reading methods, in increasing verbal comprehension. IV is reading methods.

Presenting the demographic data of the respondents is inferential statistics.

Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology relates to each other.

Age is a continuous quantitative data.

Ontology is concerned with what is true or real.

Standard deviation tells the dispersion of the data. If SD is small, the data distribution is concentrated.

Different gender have different preferences to choose TV drama. This is a directional alternative hypothesis.

Code is more general than category.

Fifty bottles of water were randomly selected. These fifty bottles are referred to as the parameter.

If a theory is ‘true’ in explaining patterns, we do not need to conduct the research anymore.

A good research question tells the research target clearly.

A mean is known as a statistic if it is computed from the sample.

Amount of money in saving account should be measured based on ordinal level.

A bingo game uses the simple random sampling method.

The hypothesis we propose in the research is the null hypothesis.

Research without making any harm to all public is perfect research.

After data management and data reduction, a conceptual development should be made in qualitative research.

Content analysis is qualitative research.

Quantitative research is based on numerical data that can be analyzed using statistics.

It is appropriate to use interview in nomothetic approach.

Mike decides to find his IG friends as respondents (50% male and 50% female), which is probability sampling.

The data in the picture show the measurement is valid and reliable.

Quantitative is close to deductive approach.

Ten kids are invited to room A (with TV), ten kids are invited to room B (without TV). Room A is the control group.

Methodology is the science of finding out, which is the ‘theory of methods.

Interval level of measurement is always used to collect respondents’ attitudes, opinions, feelings.

All numbers are quantitative data.

Field trip is quantitative research.

Ted stopped people in a K-11 musea and use questionnaire to collect data. He is doing snowball sampling.

Education background is the attribute and primary/secondary/college variables.