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    I have selected and answered seven topic questions required for this paper. First, I discuss the difference between archaeology and pseudoarcheology. Next, I uncover the five forms of archaeological data, and define ethnocentrism. Later, I talk about what cultural resource management means and what it is used for. Then, I used my notes to describe the importance of mapping and data keeping. Following was a list of four subsistence forms and what they are. Lastly, I unravel the cultural evolution…

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    Burns and Grove (1993:777) define quantitative research as a formal, objective, systematic process to describe and test relationships and examine cause and effect interactions among variables. Surveys may be used for descriptive, explanatory and exploratory research. A descriptive survey design…

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    This paper will discuss the importance of ethics in research. It will detail why research should be ethical, why it is important, describe the principles of ethical research and provide examples of unethical practices. To begin it is important to understand what does ethics in research mean. As it is presented in our textbook Mass ,"research involves human beings and the rights of these participants must not be violated." It is also important that information obtained through research be…

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    Social science researchers need to consider how their presence may have an impact on the research being conducted. Additionally, to achieve ethical practices a selection of variables should be examined. Sieber (1993) has defined the term ‘ethics’ as “a set of moral principles and rules of conduct” and has stated that in research it can be applied to prevent harm or misconduct to participants. Furthermore, age and ethnicity are two important variables that should be recognised when social…

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    Research Paper: Media’s Influence on Body Image Name Course Professor Date Proposed Methods Introduction Media has a very strong influence on the behavior of the people and has various aspects of influence on the population. Interpersonal relations between people in the society borrow a leaf from the media and the information available. In this context, there is influence of the media on the body language of the people and thus the body image. Body image entails the attitudes of the…

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    answer and can easily answered, these are also an example of quantitative research. Open questions are useful to get more descriptive answers allowing us to get more in depth answers to answer the question successfully, open questions are an example of qualitative research. Finally, we have scale questions which are useful to get more detailed responses of how people feel about certain things, scale questions are an example of quantitative research. I feel our survey has a mixture of scale, open…

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    Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice by Sheafor Horejsi, “quantitative research involves collecting a large amount of data from a representative sample of respondents” (Sheafor, 2012, p. 444). However, social worker just needs to focus on particular small rural area in Aotearoa. In other words, the social worker does not necessary need to collect a large amount of data in order to achieve their research objectives. Quantitative research is an appropriate method when numerical data…

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    Quantitative research focuses on in-depth understanding of social and human behaviour and the reasons behind such behaviour . Quantitative research will take place using questionnaire that will be sent to clients online, which is cost effective. Moreover, quantitative research is a type of research that is explaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are analysed using mathematically based methods. Quantitative research statistically measures customer…

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    Evaluation Plan for Barcode Medication Administration or Scanning Barcode medication administration or scanning is a technology that has emerged to help in lessening medical errors through performing an additional check before a medication is administered to the patient. The use of this technology is also geared towards ensuring medical errors are prevented. Similar to other medication administration or scanning technologies, barcode administration or scanning helps in dealing with drug…

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    Quantitative research method 2. Qualitative research methods 3. Mix research method 2.1 Quantitative Research Method The following definition, taken from Aliaga and Gunderson (2000), describes what we mean by quantitative research methods very well: Quantitative research is ‘Explaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are analysed using mathematically based methods (in particular statistics)’ (Aliaga and Gunderson, 2000). Quantitative method is an additional sensible…

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