Question 1 Which one of the following is not an advantage of content analysis? Or are they all advantages? a. safety b. economy in terms of time and money c. allows you to study processes occurring over a long time d. the researcher has no effect on the subject being studied e.all are advantages
Question 2 Two key problems in the analysis of existing statistics are a. reliability and validity b. ethical and political issues c. sampling size and sampling error d. longitudinal and cross-sectional issues e. units of analysis and the ecological fallacy Question 3 One of the most valuable sources of data for Canada is a. the Bible b. Statistics Canada c. your methods textbook d. the Gallup Organization e. the Demographic Yearbook
Question 4 Which method examines "who says what, to whom, why, how, and with what effect?" a. focus groups b. content analysis c. secondary analysis d. analysis of existing statistics e. historical and comparative analysis
Question 5 Durkheim's famous study of suicide employed which method? a. focus groups b. secondary analysis c. analysis of latent content d. analysis of manifest content e. analysis of existing statistics Question 6 The best way to address the problem of accuracy of records in historical and comparative analysis is through a. verstehen b. ideal types c. corroboration d. indexical reverberation e. using multiple researchers
Question 7 Francesca developed conceptual models of family structures that she discovered in various decades and these models were composed of the essential characteristics of family structures. She employed a. verstehen b. ideal types c. corroboration d. content analysis e. statistical regression Question 8 Problems of validity in the analysis of existing statistics can often be handled through a. verstehen b. latent coding c. manifest coding d. use of ideal types e. logical reasoning
