Behavioral Research Surveys Research Has Traditionally Been Essay

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Surveys research has traditionally been conducted in three ways: In-person, by mail, and over the telephone. A fourth option has been added to these modes through the survey opportunities available in digital media. This array of modes is a bit like the child's matching game in which the outlier is identified: To whit, "Which one does not belong?" Two of the four survey modes entail real-time interaction between a survey researcher and a respondent; the other two survey modes do not entail this "live" interaction. The presence of a "live" interviewer in telephone surveys research is believed to be an important variable in the non-response data. Typically, telephone survey participants are not offered a non-response option ("don't know"), but in this study, a non-response option was offered to the CATI respondents, since this was an important part of the investigation.

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Moreover, surveys research via the new digital media is becoming a predominant mode of surveys research. A review of a study follows in which differences in the responses of surveys research participants in a mixed internet-telephone study are described and analyzed.

Presentation. Lugtig, et al. (2011) have written a well-organized and clear article on nonresponse bias and mode effects in mixed-mode surveys research. The abstract provides an intriguing and well-stated description of the research, and lacks only the conventional key words that typically accompany an abstract in major periodicals today. Major headings are typical of APA (Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion and discussion, and.....

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