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Imagine you are going to conduct research investigating a human behavior that you would be interested in learning more about.
1. Based on your readings and learning this week describe what research method you would use for investigating it.
2. What drew you to this method?Why would it be well suited for your hypothetical research?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this type of research?
To help jump start this part of the discussion, here is an example of a human behavior that has been researched:Say you were interested in whether men or women approach each other first in social situations where they do not know one another.You might have an opinion based on personal experience, but you want to avoid bias toward one's own experience and ideas that such might cause, so you are going to conduct a research study.To research this, you might choose "naturalistic observation," which could require going into nightclubs and taking note of what you observe men and women doing.Another research method would be to give out a survey to see how men and women respond to the question of whether they approach the other.Each method has strengths and weaknesses.
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Based on this week's readings and learning, my human behavior of study is based on a
research hypothesis which states that; "People who happen to be more similar to each other tend
to be more attracted to each other" in the attempt to investigate my behavior of study, I choose to
make use of survey as my research method. In defining survey, it is regarded as a research
process that orderly collects and analyses information from a given population to measure
opinions, experiences and thoughts. Gathering of information using questions is not all that it
entails but also includes observations, data evaluation, measurement as well as the researcher
judgment. It involves different forms like for example when we conduct research based on the
whole population, referred to as census though it can also be based on a representative sample of
the entire population. Due to cost-effectiveness, a representative sample is often the mos...
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