What are the drawbacks of relying on the episodic record to collect data?
What will be an ideal response?
To use written records, researchers must first gain access to the materials and then code and analyze them. Gaining access to the episodic record is sometimes particularly difficult. Locating suitable materials can easily be the most time-consuming aspect of the whole data collection exercise.
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Growing numbers and a concentrated residential pattern for Hispanics mean which of the following?
a. Hispanic politicians are now the largest subgroup in the House of Representatives. b. More U.S. citizens speak Spanish than English. c. Politicians can ill afford to ignore this constituency. d. Bilingual education for junior high school students is now required in most states.
Duties of the Commissioner of the General Land Office include all the following except
a. serving on the School Land Board. b. awarding mineral leases on public lands. c. making disbursements from the Permanent School Fund (recipient of land revenues). d. collecting leases generated by public lands. e. leasing mineral interests in state riverbeds and tidelands.
One problem, noted in your text, with recruiting research participants through the Internet is that
a. the participants may not be representative of non-Internet users. b. it is difficult to find diverse samples. c. contacting potential participants is difficult. d. most researchers are not "net savvy."
Gasoline prices surged in ______.
A. 2009–2010 B. 2010–2011 C. 2011–2012 D. 2012–2013