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  1. Return to Approaches to Social Research 6e Student Resources

Chapter 12 True/False Quiz

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. Available data consist of both verbal and nonverbal materials.

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. Individual-level census records are released to the public after a period of seventy-two years.

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. Big data refer to voluminous written records that must be sampled to analyze.

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. Available data often require indirect measures that approximate the variables of interest.

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. Two strengths of written record as available data are that it is likely to be complete and unbiased.

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. Like descriptive historians, analytical historians tend to rely on primary sources.

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. There may be more than one valid interpretation of a historical event.

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. The goal of content analysis is to arrive at a textured qualitative description of written communications.

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. The use of available data is better suited than other approaches to the study of properties and changes in social structure.

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. Research using available data is usually more difficult to replicate than other approaches to social research.

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