I think the survey research interests me the most because I am more of a quantitative person when it comes to research. I have done a survey research in my quantitative communication class on what do college students looking for in their romantic partners. I really like gathering information and conduct interviews with people, and the analysis afterwards. If I want to study some aspect of deception I would probably frame my question like “What is consider deception in a romantic relationship among college student?” I would use the survey research method and comes up with questions for interviewees to answer on a liker scale. For example, “Is omitting about past relationship counts ask deception?”
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I would find a random sample about 50 college students, both male and female. Interview them and look for my common findings. This way I would have a general idea about how college students’ opinion on deception in a romantic relationship.
Hi Sogo,
ReplyDeleteI also like the survey method for research, but it does seem limited to me sometimes. I think surveys are good for finding out correlations, or comparing constructs like gender or age. I did an awesome survey research study last year where we asked people what they thought “old” meant, and literally had to write down an age. It was interesting to see that the younger people thought “old” was ages 50-60, and older people though “old” was 70-80. There was definitely a positive correlation between age and perceived old age. Surveys are also great for people like you who like qualitative concepts! Good post!