List of top Research Methodology Questions

Which of the following is not an objective of a questionnaire?

Which of the following statements is not a disadvantage of structured questions?

When developing a questionnaire, the six Ws (who, what, when, where, why, and way) are used when ________.

The conditions that must be satisfied before making causal inferences include all the following except:

Which of the following statements is not true concerning the time order of occurrence of variables?

When considering _________, accumulated evidence from several investigations increases our confidence that a causal relationship exists.

Cross-sectional and longitudinal designs are types of:

Which of the following statements is not true about exploratory research?

Descriptive research is conducted for all the following reasons except:

The question, “How did the Indian people rate the performance of Finance Minister immediately after the demonetization?” would be addressed using a _______. However, a _______ would be used to address the question, “How did the Indian people change their view of Finance Minister’s performance over the past three years?”

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of secondary data?

Whenever a new research problem is being addressed, ................. research must be preceded by appropriate ................ research.

Research designs may be broadly classified as _________ or _________

Which statement is not true about research design?

______ is a state of very high intercorrelations among independent variables.

A statistical technique for examining the differences among means for two or more populations is called

The null hypothesis for ANOVA typically is that all

The _______ is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is in fact false and should be rejected.

Also known as beta error, ______ occurs when the sample results lead to the nonrejection of a null hypothesis that is in fact false.

______ are hypothesis testing procedures that assume that the variables of interest are measured on at least an interval scale.

A measure of central tendency given as the value above which half of the values fall and below which half of the values fall is the

A statistic that indicates the distribution’s dispersion is a

Which statement is not correct about the null hypothesis ?

A frequency distribution helps

The ______ is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean or proportion.