Sunday, 8 October 2017

Limitations and Opportunities of my Research Methods

For my primary research, I have chosen to do a survey, experiment, and observation. My survey has allowed me to gain information about teens and social media there are some big limitations that I am receiving by doing this. Firstly, I need to prevent bias in my questions, so I don't get specific results I want out of them. Furthermore, I need to consider who my survey is sent out to because I don't have to power to get it across to a significant amount of people in a short amount of time. Limitations of my observation method are that the number of subjects will be very small, and the person I choose will have to be someone that I know or I am related to. However, this could be seen as an opportunity because if I know the person they are more likely to act normal around me and won't filter the way they act when being observed. The limitation of my experiment it that the subjects involved as I don't have the power or time to arrange a meeting with other children. For my secondary research, i was limited to only using Google scholar and YouTube because I didn't have access to a library or physical academic books. The limitation of Google Scholar is that there was a lot of irrelevant information that I needed so decoding it and sourcing out important information was very time consuming, so I only stuck with about 2-3 sources. However, the opportunity of google scholar is that I can trust the information and it might give me good information to answer my theory or question The limitation of YouTube is that finding original unedited broadcasts is very tricky and also confirming the validity because the posts were not often posted by the person who was in the videos.

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  1. "Firstly, I need to prevent bias in my questions, so I don't get specific results I want out of them. " HOW would you do this?

    "However, the opportunity of google scholar is that I can trust the information and it might give me good information to answer my theory or question " HOW is your primary build on your secondary?

    WHAT was the aim of each pf your 6 methods - what were you trying to find out or data to collect from each that lead to you choosing them?
    ARE THEY Qual or Quan - is there a balance?

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