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jasdeep_brar

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on: Jul 13, 2018
How can you reduce the number of irrelevant citations in a PsycINFO search?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Why do open-ended questions provide more information to survey researchers than closed-ended questions? What drawbacks are associated with open-ended questions?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a. search by Subject rather than simply by a word
b. set limits (e.g., by year, publication type, population, type of publication, etc.) in the search
c. use the PsycINFO thesaurus to identify narrow terms

Answer to Question 2

Open-ended questions allows a respondent to provide the best answer to a question, whereas closed-ended questions force the respondent to choose from a selected set. The open-ended questions may lead to answers that the researcher doesn't anticipate, which could be positive, leading to more valid answers; such answers could be problematic, though, because they are hard to code and summarize when respondents take very different paths to their answers.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 13, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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