Field experiments
- Created by: Joanaar
- Created on: 22-09-20 11:42
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- Field experiments
- Reliability (repeatable)
- less reliable than lab
- less control over variables
- Do not have standardised method
- more reliable then interpretivist methods
- less reliable than lab
- Validity (how true to life)
- considered more valid than lab experiments
- take place in natural setting
- don't know they are involved
- Hawthorne effect
- (when participant changes behaviour)
- Hawthorne effect
- depends on variables the researcher introduces / alters
- whether they are 'true to life' or not
- considered more valid than lab experiments
- Representativeness
- extent to which the researcher can generalise
- samples usually small
- due to time, cost, difficulty
- not possible to generalise
- not representative
- not possible to generalise
- due to time, cost, difficulty
- Effectiveness
- more valid than lab experiments
- loss of control over variables
- researcher cant identify cause and effect
- critised as being unethical
- people studied without their knowledge or consent
- critised as being unethical
- researcher cant identify cause and effect
- loss of control over variables
- no way to make generalisaions about society
- one off studies based on a small sample
- more valid than lab experiments
- Reliability (repeatable)
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