SECTION 2: BRIEF RESPONSE (30 Marks) Demonstrate your understanding of quantitative research methods by providing a one or two word response to what each of the 15 sentences is describing or referring to. 1. Deals with clarifying observed phenomenon. 2. Explains the purpose of the study including theoretical ideas and conceptual clarification. 3. Consistent and interconnected ideas used to summarise and organise knowledge. 4. Non - mathematical in nature and helps create comprehensive understandings of phenomenon. 5. Structured impersonal process with the investigator disconnected. 6. Facilitates theoretical interpretations of results 7. The data matrix is the starting point for analysis 8. Measures the relationship between two or more variables in a population 9. Measures population characteristics using statistical methods 10. Uses a rating scale to evaluate the phenomenon being observed 11. Points around which research is conducted and are used to formulate theories 12. Sequence of steps employed in conducting research 13. Used to conclude cause and effect 14. Extent to which we can generalise the findings from a sample to a population 15. A distortion that occurs when members of a population do not have an equal chance of being selected