Essay on Exercise 11 &16

Scheper-Hughes did a combination of both quantitative and qualitative data during her fieldwork. It doesn’t say that she read documents and researched, but one can infer that is how she collected data of average pregnancies, child births, stillbirths etc.,

9. If there were 32 subjects in the experimental group and 36 subjects in the control group, why is the income data only reported for 30 subjects in the experimental group and 34 subjects in the control group?

3. Sample Population: Who exactly was used in the study? How many? (Be as specific as possible.)

2. What statistics were used to describe the length of labor in this study? Were these appropriate? The statistics used to describe the length of labor in this study descriptive, they were mean and standard deviation. These are appropriate as they both can be calculated at the interval level of measurement.

5. In your own words describe what you think the results tell us. What do the results mean? How do you interpret the

b) The household income by poverty level is an ordinal variable and being overweight or

1. State the type of study that was conducted (see methods section of article, it must be one of the above study types).

An individual who considers conducting applied research must first formulate an appropriate hypothesis in an effort to obtain an answer to a question through data and other statistical means. Importantly, it is essential for the researcher conducting the desired study to provide pertinent evidence that illustrates a valid or an invalid point regarding the data results. Our selected research was to prove whether or not males, in fact, weighed more at birth in comparison to females at birth. Furthermore, the research problem in the case of female and male birth weight presents our hypothesis, regarding greater birth weight, which is men on average weigh more at birth than women with an alternative hypothesis that the null hypothesis will be false.

The researchers analyzed the data they collected as if it were (d) experimental because it was a randomized trial using a control group and an experimental group where the experimental group was administered an empowerment program and the results of the two groups compared.

The method of selecting the sample was clearly defined and the sample size met the suggested guideline for minimum sample size. Data was

1. What were the key data collection methods used and how did they align with the focus of the research?

This section deals with the population of the study, the sample-participants, research instruments, and time-schedule for completing the study.

2) What was the background for the study? That is, what previous knowledge did the author describe as a foundation for the study in the “review of related literature?”

1. Describe the context (why it was done, the general interest and what the researchers wanted to find out) of the research and research question (what is the hypothesis). /10

1. What would this study have to look like in order for it be predominately qualitative?