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What Threatens Research Validity

they truly representative of the population being studied? Experimental mortality is another threat and addresses how many partici...

Research Design Enhancement and Assessment

In eight pages the methodologies used in assessing the validity of a research design is evaluated in terms of external and interna...

Does Science Have All the Answers?

of penetrating into the natural world; but there is no objective, certain or scientific method for setting or testing them " (Rave...

Multiple Personality Disorder

hypnotizable and extremely suggestible" (Kantrowitz 66). This particular doctor also believes that Sybils personalities were actua...

Tennessee Self Concept Scale Reliability and Validity

an outlining of the materials to be used, including the scales and subtest criteria presented in the Manual for the TSCS. Additio...

History

simple event people can become confused about a truth based on the fact that everyones "vantage point" or perspective is different...

Quantitative v. Qualitative Data

they are classified, counted and used to construct statistical models. Many quantitative researchers generally view the qualitat...

Competition Issues and Microsoft

to Nintendo (European Report, 2002). 3. Navision, a Danish company that develops enterprise and accounting software (The Practical...

Qualitative Research Methodology

qualitative research is subjective. Quantitative research seeks explanatory laws; qualitative research aims at in-depth descriptio...

Study Critique/Coetzee (2004)

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

Issues in Students Research

on every 5th page, starting at page 40 of the book, this took away any potential for the researcher to try and use personal judgem...

Strong Interest Inventory vs. Myers Briggs in Assessment Tests

career development, self-understanding and development, career exploration, development and counseling, relationship and family co...

Alcoholism and Teens

In fourteen pages a hypothetical scenario on teen alcoholism is based upon actual case study and includes such subsections as type...

Article Critique/Effect of Humor on Attraction

a long-term partner" that fitted with the "range of attributes thought to be consistent with evolutionary theorys concept of an id...

Qualitative Research Methodology, Probability Sampling, and Schedule Construction

In five pages this paper examines qualitative research's 4 designs in an assessment of reliability and validity of probability sam...

Research Psychology

This essay discusses issues related to research in psychology, including why the research sub-discipline is important. The essay e...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

Appling Reliability and Validity Concepts to Qualitative Research

The writer examines whether or not the concepts of reliability and validity are suitable when applied to qualitative research meth...

Online Research Review

of the study, however, one purpose illustrated in the questions was the frequency with which customers used the "Wish list". There...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Review of a Research Article

or altering the independent variable and observing the impact it has ion the dependable variable. In the article provided ...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

SLE Glomerulonephritis, its Pathophysiology

This research paper discusses the pathophysiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with particular emphasis on one of its mo...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Importance of Rain Forest/Coral Reef

holds that by destroying ancient old growth forests, such as the one slated for destruction in this case, we are essentially depri...

Research and the Concepts of Validity and Reliability

effect, that is, "causal" questions are those which would compare the type of activity (the cause) with the effect of that cause. ...

Nursing Methods of Research and Validity Questions

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

Reliability and Validity in Research

the recession it is important to look at the shopping process and how customers patterns of purchases are taking place and changi...

Article Critique/Learning Style Preferences

the problem of teaching students with diverse backgrounds and abilities and refer to the 1997 report of the National Committee of ...

Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...