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Quick Quiz


Test your understanding of planning your research by answering these short questions:

Question 1. Which of these statements best describes Experimental, Observational and Opinion-based research:

  1. identifying opinions through the use of surveys, questionnaires and/or focus groups
  2. using state-of-the-art equipment in a laboratory
  3. application of a treatment to an experimental unit in the presence of a control
  4. the study of communities and their interactions
  5. working in the field?
Question 2. Primary data is ...

  1. data collected solely from a laboratory/field situation
  2. data collected by the researcher and used by someone else
  3. collected and used by the researcher.
Question 3. Sarah is conducting an experiment looking at the effects of three chilling temperatures on the number of flowers produced by carnation plants. Can you identify:

  1. the treatment
  2. the experimental unit
  3. a suitable control?
Question 4. John is conducting a field experiment investigating the effect of herbicide regimes on invertebrate abundance. His experiment is conducted in a field that is bordered by a stream to the North side and a forest to the East. How could John create 4 blocks in the field that would represent different environmental conditions?
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