Exam 4: Surveys

Based on the mode of delivery you chose, which sampling method will you use to sample from this population?

How will you pretest your survey?

In the study you are doing using the research question you just wrote, what is your population?

In the study you are doing using the research question you just wrote, what is your population?

Would your research be confidential or anonymous? Explain the difference, and why you choose to make it the one you indicated.

Based on the hypothesis that you have just written, conceptualize one variable that you would need to use in order to test your hypothesis.

What is your sampling frame?

Surveys consist primarily of ______.

Would your research be confidential or anonymous? Explain the difference, and why you choose to make it the one you indicated.

You have just been hired by a national research firm that specializes in surveying Americans about political opinions. Politicians and candidates running for office routinely examine the results gathered by this firm to shape their policies. For this project, the firm is interested in understanding what issues and strategies get voters engaged in grassroots activism on behalf of candidates. Write your research question.

Thinking about the mode of delivery you chose, list two problems you would be likely to have with getting a good response rate for this study, and what you would do to try to overcome these and thus maximize your response rate?

There are several things wrong with the following survey item. Of the choices given, what is one of them? The President is officially elected by the Electoral College, whose members are unknown to most voters, and who could ignore the wishes of the voters. Should we abolish the Electoral College? Yes No Don't know

You are conducting applied research for a chain of discount retail stores about their customers' satisfaction with their shopping experience. You have a big budget and a staff to work on the research, but it is important that you get a representative sample of your shoppers. Which mode of delivery would be the best, given the situation?

You are using a survey to study the relationship between Americans' attitudes about marriage between LGBTQ partners and attitudes about other issues of inequality. Write your research question.

Write one hypothesis to test your research question.

Thinking about the mode of delivery you chose, list two problems you would be likely to have with getting a good response rate for this study, and what you would do to try to overcome these and thus maximize your response rate?

List four things that you will do to protect your participants, OTHER than getting their informed consent.

List four things that you will do to protect your participants, OTHER than getting their informed consent.

Which of the following conditions would lead you to choose to use cluster sampling?

What is your sampling frame?