Research Data

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What is primary data?
Data collected first hand by the researcher.
What is secondary data?
Information that s taken from secondary sources.
What are examples?
Literature reviews, including books, journal articles and internet.
What is Quantitative data?
Information that represents how much/long/many of something there is.
What is Qualitative data?
This is non- numerical data that is information in the form of words that cannot be quantified.
What can happen to qualitative data?
It can be changed to quantitative by placing them in categories and counting frequency.
What is an independent variable?
An event that is directly manipulated by an experimenter in order to test its effect on another variable.