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Secondary Data Research MCQ

Secondary Data Research MCQ

 

1. All of the following should be considered when designing a study except __________.

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Correct Answer: How to interpret collected data

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2. Hughes discovered that people used the medication for all off-label uses EXCEPT which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Swelling

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3. Logical reasoning and replication is used to handle reliability and validity issues when analyzing existing data.

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Correct Answer: True

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4. Which is a type of prize that businesses can offer as an incentive for learning purposes?

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Correct Answer: Money

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5. Exploring reviews on a product, procedure, event, or experience, we can easily collect abundant information.

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Correct Answer: False

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6. Durkheim a French sociologist had used secondary data when he studied suicide.

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Correct Answer: True

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7. The best source for data about the United States is the Statistical Abstract for the United States.

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Correct Answer: True

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8. All of the following are benefits of using secondary data EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Issues of reliability and validity

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9. What information helps determine the quality of the data set, the methodology used, and the methodological standards?

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Correct Answer: Secondary data

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10. Online information provides a bare minimum of secondary data to bolster new and valuable research.

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Correct Answer: False

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11. Two keys problems in the analysis if existing data are establishing reliability and validity.

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Correct Answer: True

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12. Existing data may be used only to provide a context for research.

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Correct Answer: False

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13. Shannon Hughes was interested in ______ of psychiatric medications.

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Correct Answer: Uses and side effects

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14. Each available data set has a lengthy explanation of the methodology on how data were collected and the procedures followed.

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Correct Answer: False

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15. If a company decides to make their data set available to public for scientific analyses, they release their data to Google, Bing, or Yahoo.

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Correct Answer: False

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16. When a researcher is using existing data he or she should not be concerned about reliability and validity since most times the data sets are quite large.

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Correct Answer: False

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17. Data that are used for analysis by the researcher or the team of researchers are known as secondary data

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Correct Answer: False

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18. Conducting a study exactly as it was conducted the first time is known as replication .

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Correct Answer: True

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19. Data that are collected from the researcher or the team of researchers directly is known as Primary Data

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Correct Answer: True

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20. Information collected by various organizations about their employees, consumers they serve, and other characteristics of the institution is known as _______ data

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Correct Answer: Institutional

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21. Government Statistics collected by governments all around the world. Such data include information about births, deaths,_________, income, employment, and other useful information.

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Correct Answer: Demographic trends

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22. Extracting small amounts of information from websites into a readable spreadsheet like Excel is known as Data Scraping.

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Correct Answer: True

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