EXPERIMENTS

Laboratory Experiments

Positivists favour the laboratory experiment because it achieves their main goal of reliability. Interpretivists reject the laboratory experiment because it fails to achieve their main goal of validity. It is an artificial situation producing unnatural behaviour.

Advantages.

·         Can be easily reproduced to see if same results are collected

·         It is a very detached method: the researcher merely manipulates the variables and records the results. The scientists’ personal feelings and opinions have no…