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6. Weakness of time sampling
- If using a noisy stopwatch, it could induce demand charateristics
- No indictaion of the amount of time spent on each behaviour category
- No indication of the order in which events occured
7. What is inter-ratal relaibility
- When there is a participant and observer recording findings
- When there is more than one observer that records the same findings
- When there is only one observer that records findings
8. Strength of time sampling
- Records are easy to obtain and analyse
- Observer won't get bored or fatigued
- Captures all behaviours as observer watches for a long period of time
9. Name one strength of a structured observation
- More organised as uses a coding scheme to define important behaviours
- Records all behavioursw so wont miss anything
10. An unstructured observation uses a coding scheme
