A Researcher Is Carefully Making Decisions That Will Affect How

question 2

Multiple Choice

A researcher is carefully making decisions that will affect how much variation he or she needs to adequately measure a variable.This concern with variation will influence his or her decisions regarding

• A)his or her choice between a quantitative survey and a qualitative ethnography.
• B)whether the values should be mutually exclusive.
• C)how he or she should conceptually define the variable.
• D)whether to use precise measures or sort subjects into basic categories.

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