Quantitative research

Common sense can’t replace sociological research because of many reasons based off a variety of studies. Many people have the idea that common sense can be the only way of thinking and view situations in life. Also, relying that they’re always accurate because it is your own opinion on a situation and to always go with what you believe in. Others feel looking into research and seeing different situations and the different ways people think is the way we should finalize our views and opinions.…

There are millions of people around the world all wanting to find the perfect body building program. The lengths people will go to in order to get their bodies into shape are mind boggling. They run from one program to the next and the next. Every time they start a new program they are convinced it is the one that is going to make a difference. This costs a lot of money and it never seems to end. These individuals aren't stupid. They are being given information that is inaccurate. A lot of it is…

and the use of learning journals focus on traditional students. The lack of study relating to non-traditional students, learning journals, and critical reflection creates the foundation for the research done by Arthur M. Langer of Columbia University. The purpose of this critique is to review Langer’s research and identify areas of strengths and weaknesses in the research’s format, data collection study design and analysis, and conclusions. Langer…

two ways – experimental research and observational research, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each. In regards to the speculation concerning what creates a genius (inherent genetic advantages or intense practice at a young age), this paper will discuss the validity behind the nurturing explanation and the creation of an experiment to help prove it. First, there are various pros and cons to the types of research that can be applied. Concerning experimental research, some advantages…

This essay will focus on the critical analysis and comparison of two texts sharing the subject: “Manchester Pride 2017”. The main focus of the analysis will be the similarities and differences of the texts in terms of vocabulary, grammatical structure and style. Some other features of language will be briefly analysed as well. The first text is a news article from BBC News Online untitled “Manchester Pride: Thousands line streets for 'Graduation Parade'”, and the second is a blog post untitled…

The research methods used to accumulate the date which served the basis for The Happiness of Pursuit article is descriptive research method and correlations research method. The article was resented with case studies, survey methods, and naturalistic observation. The article strength it was able to present the different causes and factors of happiness, negative and positive outlook, and behaviors associated to happiness. This weakness of the article it do not enable researchers to make…

After reviewing Professor Spencer’s three proposals and those of several other authors, some patterns emerge. Based on the two primary systematic problems facing parties in discovery and litigation generally today—an overworked judiciary who may not always understand the problems facing litigants and perverse incentives for parties to accrue costs (usually to force settlement)—the best solutions lie in using the parties’ own incentives to limit the costs of discovery, especially given the…

The students were told about the study being conducted before they filled out the questionnaire. There was no penalty for students who did not participate in the study or those who have opted out during taking the questionnaire. For those who participated, they clicked on a link that was posted in the PSY 510/520 student lounge which brought them to Qualtrics. Qualtrics was the survey software used for the purpose of the given questionnaire. Using the qualtrics survey software helped protect the…

CHAPTER III RESEARCH DESIGN Rationale for phenomenological qualitative study Phenomenology method I have selected for this study because my intent was to develop meaning from a human experience (Patton, 1990). The lived experience is a self- understanding of a phenomenon through the subjective knowing of the researcher. A phenomenological qualitative design was used to understand the newly qualified nurses’ perceptions of working with mentally ill patients. As stressed by (Fossey, Harvey, Mc…

collect quantitative data. Tools are often established as reliable after they successfully measure an established and known standard (for example one might check to see if a scale will be reliable for measuring weight by placing a standard 100 g weight on it and seeing how close the scale reads to that true weight). A few different criteria are typically utilized, ensuring that the instrument in question can successfully measure the range of expected values. A valid…