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Secondary Data Research MCQ

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

Giving better supplies of food to chimpanzees will decrease their aggressive behavior.

How to interpret collected data

Descriptive

Collecting data for the study

Answer

Correct Answer: How to interpret collected data

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

Insomnia

Development disorders

Migraines

Swelling

Answer

Correct Answer: Swelling

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

Money

Candy

Tickets to a movie

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Money

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

Availability of information

Opportunities for replication

Cost effectiveness

Issues of reliability and validity

Answer

Correct Answer: Issues of reliability and validity

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

Primary data

Secondary data

Educated guesses

Experimenting

Answer

Correct Answer: Secondary data

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Shannon Hughes was interested in ______ of psychiatric medications.

Knowledge

Uses and side effects

Numbers

Dosage

Answer

Correct Answer: Uses and side effects

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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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.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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

Institutional

Primary

Nominal

Ordinal

Answer

Correct Answer: Institutional

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

Demographic trends

Institutional Data

Primary Data

Replication

Answer

Correct Answer: Demographic trends

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

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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