Survey research

survey research

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Answer  3 Questions (20 points each)

Note: Your answers must provide sufficient details. I strongly discourage one or two sentence answers and will not assign credit for such answers.

1. Discuss how scientific inquiry tries to avoid the common pitfalls that produce error in nonscientific inquiry. (80-100words)

2.  Describe the strengths and weaknesses of survey research. (80-100words)

3.   Explain the advantages and disadvantages associated with the different survey methods. (80-100words)

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? One of the defining feature of scientific research is that it uses a certain criteria that must be met before the reality is accepted, the assertion that is put forward must be both empirically and logically supported and not contradicting an actual observation. This uses methodology to find out more about an assertion. Non- scientific inquiry on the other hand uses no methodology, nor does it have any criteria for defining the reality. Thus this method is prone to pitfalls like depending on the state of the discoverer, inheritance of culture and ordinary human inquiry………………………………….

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