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Return to Approaches to Social Research 6e Student Resources
Chapter 01 True/False Quiz
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Studying research methods can help you evaluate research reports as well as conduct your own social research.
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It is rarely possible to study a social science topic with more than one basic approach.
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The questions that motivate most social research usually are too narrow in scope and must be broadened to make them researchable.
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One's social science discipline and training may affect one's choice of research methods.
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The basic approaches to social research can be divided into the scientific and the unscientific.
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Experiments are the best research strategy for investigating the causes of phenomena.
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A key feature of surveys is the manner in which respondents are selected.
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Field researchers rely mainly on questionnaires and interviews to gather data.
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Available data are limited to written and statistical records.
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The four basic approaches to social research tend to be subject to different sources of error.
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