Research Methods

Janaina W.
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  1. sample
    a small part intended as representative of the whole
  2. deductive
    relating to reasoning from the general to the particular
    deductive research - from theory to data
  3. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  4. inductive
    influencing or causing to arise
    Inductive research - from data to theory
  5. independent variable
    a value that does not depend on changes in other values
    e.g. language spoken to plants
  6. dependent variable
    a quantity whose value depends on another quantity
    e.g. plants growth in centimeters
  7. falsify
    make false by mutilation or addition
    to question the truth of a theory
  8. validity
    the quality of being legitimate and rigorous
    in research - the extent to which you are measuring what you intend to mensure
  9. reliability
    the quality of being dependable
    in research - being able to be replicated with similar results
  10. idiosyncratic
    peculiar to the individual
  11. ethnography
    scientific description of individual human societies
Created on Fri Oct 18 04:55:00 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Aug 28 08:27:18 EDT 2015)

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