I have
chosen to read the quantitative paper The
effectiveness of Short Message Service for communication with concerns of
privacy protection and conflict avoidance which have been published in the
journal Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communications.
1. Which quantitative method or methods are
used in the paper? Which are the benefits and limitations of using these
methods?
In the research paper they use a questionnaire survey as a method to collect data. The benefit of this method is that it is rather easy to get a huge amount of data in a short time. You basically just need to send out the form and then sit and wait for all the answers. A limitation could be that you can get answers from people that are not in your user group if they accidently get their hands on the survey. Another limitation could be that if the user group is small you get a wryly result because it cannot represent a whole group.
In the paper they used a kind of street survey where they stood on the street and asked questions to people passing by. In the paper they argue that this is a good way since you get a better circulation of the participants. They also used a gift in form of e.g. a pen, a calendar etc. for all the people that took part of the survey. I believe that this is both good and bad, it is good because it can draw more people to the survey and thereby they get more answers. But it can also make the answers less serious because some people might answer it just because they get a gift from doing so.
In the research paper they use a questionnaire survey as a method to collect data. The benefit of this method is that it is rather easy to get a huge amount of data in a short time. You basically just need to send out the form and then sit and wait for all the answers. A limitation could be that you can get answers from people that are not in your user group if they accidently get their hands on the survey. Another limitation could be that if the user group is small you get a wryly result because it cannot represent a whole group.
In the paper they used a kind of street survey where they stood on the street and asked questions to people passing by. In the paper they argue that this is a good way since you get a better circulation of the participants. They also used a gift in form of e.g. a pen, a calendar etc. for all the people that took part of the survey. I believe that this is both good and bad, it is good because it can draw more people to the survey and thereby they get more answers. But it can also make the answers less serious because some people might answer it just because they get a gift from doing so.
2. What did you learn about
quantitative methods from reading the paper?
I think I learned that a survey isn’t just a form on the internet that you send to all the people you want to participate. You can collect all this data by standing on the street and ask people the same questions that would be in your form.
I think I learned that a survey isn’t just a form on the internet that you send to all the people you want to participate. You can collect all this data by standing on the street and ask people the same questions that would be in your form.
3. Which are the main methodological problems of
the study? How could the use of the quantitative method or methods have
been improved?
I believe one of the problems could be that the people answering their survey got a gift for being a part of the study. As I said under question 1 I believe that this can contribute to the fact that some answers might not be good enough to have in a study. They might get participants that only want to be a part of this because of the gift and it can be hard to find those answers and to know how serious they are. I think they could have improved the methods if the also had used a qualitative method together with the quantitative. They could have followed up their survey with more personal interviews which could have got them a deeper analyze of the results.
I believe one of the problems could be that the people answering their survey got a gift for being a part of the study. As I said under question 1 I believe that this can contribute to the fact that some answers might not be good enough to have in a study. They might get participants that only want to be a part of this because of the gift and it can be hard to find those answers and to know how serious they are. I think they could have improved the methods if the also had used a qualitative method together with the quantitative. They could have followed up their survey with more personal interviews which could have got them a deeper analyze of the results.
1. Which are the benefits and limitations of using
quantitative methods?
A benefit of using quantitative methods is that it is rather easy to summarize the collected data. You can easy put up graphs and tables of the data and compare the different answers from a question. It is also a good way to reach a lot of people in a short time. A limitation is that some factors cannot be presented numerically such as many social and political variables. It is also a limitation that the survey can be bias and a false representation because the researchers are the one setting the questions. It is also a limitation that some questions does not fit the participants to 100 percent. Therefore the answers are the ones that is most alike rather than an answer that is 100 percent alike what the participant really thinks.
A benefit of using quantitative methods is that it is rather easy to summarize the collected data. You can easy put up graphs and tables of the data and compare the different answers from a question. It is also a good way to reach a lot of people in a short time. A limitation is that some factors cannot be presented numerically such as many social and political variables. It is also a limitation that the survey can be bias and a false representation because the researchers are the one setting the questions. It is also a limitation that some questions does not fit the participants to 100 percent. Therefore the answers are the ones that is most alike rather than an answer that is 100 percent alike what the participant really thinks.
2. Which are the benefits and limitations of using
qualitative methods?
A benefit with qualitative methods is that it provides depth, it goes deeper than just analyzing numbers. It also is more open to responses that sometimes is outside the actual subject. A limitation is that it is more time consuming than quantitative methods which leads to fewer participants. This can make it more difficult to generalize and draw conclusions from the answers.
A benefit with qualitative methods is that it provides depth, it goes deeper than just analyzing numbers. It also is more open to responses that sometimes is outside the actual subject. A limitation is that it is more time consuming than quantitative methods which leads to fewer participants. This can make it more difficult to generalize and draw conclusions from the answers.
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