Category: Methods and Research

A. the s is clearly worded
B. they cover the return postage
C. the answers are mutually exclusive
D. they are easy and quick to answer
E. they involve no thought on the part of the respondent.

A. Laboratory
B. Field
C. both A & B
D. None of these

A. is a sincere and accurate account free from political bias
B. is representative of all the similar documents that did not survive
C. has both a literal and an interpretable meaning
D. is a sound original, or reliable copy of known authorship

A. sample
B. respondents
C. focus group
D. population

A. interviews
B. nares
C. representative samples
D. observation techniques

A. variation
B. correlation
C. observation
D. measure of central tendency
E. spurious relationship

A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process

A. the influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
B. it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
C. it is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
D. it can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities

A. observation research
B. a survey
C. content analysis
D. an experiment

A. administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
B. examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city’s telephone book
C. studies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city’s list of registered Democrats
D. None of the above