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KEY FEATURES: Introduces students to developing research questions and shows their importance in driving research design. Rarely taught topics, such as how to enter and clean data, offer students information missed in both research methods and statistics courses. Shows how to write up survey results for academic, business and nonprofit reports to alleviate the confusion students feel about how to write up findings. Rigorous treatment of sampling focuses on many sampling issues from probability theory to weighting. Offers the process of actually conducting a survey with advice on administering surveys, incentives, and improving response rates.
What Are the Ethical Concerns for Collecting and Analyzing Data?
What Are the Ethical Concerns for Collecting and Analyzing Data?
So far, we have focused on ethical treatment of research subjects. While rare, some researchers have been known to cheat when it comes to conducting research. This is known as falsifying or fabricating their data. This is also unethical and covered by the IRB.
Fabrication is the literal making up of data. Rather than collecting data, a researcher might just create a dataset. In 2015, Science, a highly regarded academic journal, retracted a paper about canvassing people regarding their attitudes toward gay marriage. Researchers attempting to replicate the study found many irregularities. When they delved further into the study to understand why they could not replicate it, they found that the company that was ...
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