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Describe an instance where a researcher would be obligated to break confidentiality and report an incident to the proper authorities.
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Please propose a research design that studies HIV-AIDs using either cross-sectional designs, panel designs, repeated cross-sectional designs, or cohort designs. Make sure to indicate which design you have chosen, and why.
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You are working for a community development organization in a Sao Paulo, Brazil, which has relatively high rates of unemployment, poverty, high school attrition, and juvenile delinquency. Your organization wants to begin an afternoon computer-training program for young people. Explain how you might use descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluation research to get this program up and running. Carefully distinguish among these four different goals.
Descriptive:
Exploratory:
Explanatory:
Evaluation:
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Our choices about what we mean by particular terms impact how we decide to measure them. What are we doing when we move from conceptualization to operationalization? Please defining these terms, and then demonstrate by conceptualizing and operationalizing the following two concepts: environmentalism and gender inequality.
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The article on nationalism in Czech Republic and Slovakia focused primarily on how to define and measure the term. Please formulate a possible research question that emerges from that reading. After you formulate it, indicate what your variables might be, and what are your constants. You have a range of possibilities, and be creative!
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How would you measure/define the concept of motivation? Please give me two types of measurements: 1) One that is quantifiable by people’s actions, and 2) the other that is recorded by people’s responses to a survey. Thanks for your work!