Research methods

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Primary Data
Information collected by the sociologist himself.
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Secondary Data
Information collected by someone else. Found online or in books.
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Quantitative Data
Information using numbers
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Qualitative Data
Information using words
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Validity
How true something is.
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Reliability
When repeated it creates the same
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Representativeness
a cross section, the researcher studies a larger group and it allows findings to be generalised.
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Information collected by someone else. Found online or in books.

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Secondary Data

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Information using numbers

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Information using words

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How true something is.

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