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[10:45 7/12/2007 ]Job No: 5052 Pierce: Research Methods in PoliticsPage: 79 79 99 Chapter 7 Evaluating information : Validity, reliability , accuracy ,TriangulationTeaching and learning consider why information should be understand the distinction between primary and secondary sources learn what is meant by the validity , reliability , and accuracy of consider some warnings about official data consider further the distinction between facts and truth understand the origin of triangulation and its application to consider methods of sampling which can be used to collect data. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything .Bertrand Russell, Chapter 6, you read how published research reports can be assessed. Theresearch component analysis and Rose s ABCDE model examined the completenessand coherence of the research process adopted. They also considered the validityor otherwise of the relationships between theory and hypothesis, concepts andindicators, empiric data and analysis, and conclusions.
[10:45 7/12/2007 5052-Pierce-Ch07.tex] Job No: 5052 Pierce: Research Methods in Politics Page: 81 79–99 Evaluating Information: Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, Triangulation 81 and data.3 Wherever possible, Politics researchers prefer to use primary, eye- witness data recorded at the time by participants or privileged observers.
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