Research Methods Reading

Front 1

1. Unclear and estimated portion sizes

2. The seasonal availability of fruits and vegetables

3. Self reporting

4. Accuracy of the data due to the methods chosen (longitudinal may have worked better)

5. Potato intakes not considered

6. THe childrens ability to distinguish fruit juice from lemonade

7. Can this be generalized to all students (private school kids or home schooled for example?)

8. The absence of clear guidelines on fruit and vegetable intake for 11 year olds

Back 1

What were the limitation of the Fruit and Vegetable Paper? (list 8)

Front 2

1. Subjective memory of the individuals tested aka self reporting

2. How the viewer was feeling preceding the testing

3. Question of reliabiltiy because only a few sources of secondary data were used for this whole papers argument

4. The principles and values of the individuals tested

5. the representativeness of the sample

6. The familarity of the individuals tested with the advertisements & programmes shown

Back 2

What were the limitations of "does sex really sell?" paper? (list 6)

Front 3

1. The representativeness of the sample

2. The generalizability of the study

3. The personal values & opinions of the individuals tested regarding healty food, trust in the food industry, etc.

4. The cultural view of the individuals tested

5. The relability of the questionnaires (this is because the question is asked in a certain way to give certain results)

Back 3

What were the limitations of the "Ready 2 eat salads" paper? (List 5)

Front 4

1. The generalizability of the results (was only test @ 1 american uni)

2. The representativeness of the sample (only 363 people took an electronic survey out of 6,000 peopel messaged)

3. Self selection

4. Secondary data was outdated

Back 4

What were the limitations of the "Dormitory living on student performance" paper? (List 4)

Front 5

1. Reliability of conclusion and generalizability of results. This is because the author was only looking at participant interviews for the paper, and even though qualitivative works well in the respect, these statements made in the article may not apply to other qualitative gathering methods.

Back 5

What are the limitations of "Language and Meaning: Data Collection Qualitative Research" paper? (List one & give explanation )

Front 6

1. Obsolesence of Data

2. Unreliability of measurement

3. General holisitic limitation because only a few factors were taken into account (I would consider this reliance on correlation of data)

4. The absense fo a theory makes the paper useful as a research bases but does not add any information to previous knowledge).

Back 6

What are the limitations of "The Use of Secondary Data in Business Ethics research" (List 4)

Front 7

1. Past studies were bias to over-representing anxiety

2. Reliabilty of research (different variables). Can you gauge emotions? Is my depression the same as his?

3. Respondent bias

4. Difficult to measure emotions in a non overlapping way

5. Didnt take into account the persons previous mental health or day

6. Weak generalizability of past dtudy

7. Generalizability of resuts (can this be applied to other countries?)

8. Did cross sectional method and did not do longitudinal which may have been better

Back 7

What are the limitations of the "Academic Emotions" paper? ( List 8)

Front 8

1. Only observes positive evidence

2. Generalizability of results

3. Reliability of results; they never state the sample size or anything like that with their research.

Back 8

What are the limitations of the "Learning about Users from Observation" paper? (List 3)

Front 9

1. It has a philosophical nature. This leans on human radicalism and could affect the reliability of the research.

Back 9

What are the limitations of the "Sampling for qualitative research" paper? (List 1)