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Babbie discusses operationalization choices and offers four research questions and ways to address them. Choose two of the questions and discuss how the applications mentioned are good choices or how they may not bring about the expected results.
Operationalization is the development of specific research procedures that will result in empirical observations representing those concepts in the real world (Babbie, 2013).
Range of variation
The questions asked is,” to what extend is the research willing to combine attributes in fairly gross categories” (Babbie, 2013 p. 137)?
In the first application, the research on women being more passionate than men has a good sample since it has equal men and women participating in a manner to ensure that the two have equal chances. However, looking closely at the setup, it may not be possible to get the required results since all the subjects answered in a similar manner suggesting that they would chose to help someone in trouble since it was the right thing to do in the situation. Hence this may not have been a good question as the answers received will not be correct. At the same time the range of variation may not be good (Mueller, 2004).
Variation between the extremes
The question asked is, “to what degree is the operationalization of a variable precise” (Babbie, 2013 p.139)? Based on this, what it boils down to is how fine you will make the distinctions among the various possible attributes composing a given variable. In the above case, since both men and women answered the same way, the variation between the extremes might not be correct (Babbie, 2013).
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Let's discuss Chapter 7. Suppose you were conducting a survey comparing two groups (e.g., men and women). How many participants would you survey for each group and why? At what number do you feel like you'd be able to "generalize" your results?
Babbie, E. (2013). The practice of social research. Cengage Learning.
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