Research

Items

• selection bias

  It refers to experimental mistakes that lead to an inaccurate representation of a research sample. It usually occurs when the researcher decides who is going to studied.
• selection of participants

  Refers to how researchers decide who will be able to participate in a study.
• selective observation

  This is paying attention to events that match prior conclusion and ignore those that do not.
• semiotics

  The study of the use of symbolic communication. It includes signs, logos, gestures and other linguistic and non-linguistic communication methods.
• shares the same continent

  Has the same opinion
• shortcomings

  Also known as study limitations or flaws; which could be the results of unavailability of resources, small sample size, flawed methodology. They are constraints placed on the ability to generalise from the results.
• significant result

  The results in which it is likely that the finding is real, reliable, and not due to change. To evaluate whether results/findings are significant, researchers engage in a process known as null hypothesis significance testing.
• similarities

  The state of being similar.
• simple and multiple regressions

  Simple linear regression is the model/statistical method that allows us to summarise and study relationships between two quantitative variables, (an independent variable and the dependent variable). A statistical technique used to analyse the relationship between a single dependant variable and several independent variables.
• simple random sampling

  It is a type of probability sampling in which the researcher randomly selects a subset of participants from a population.
• simulation

  A research technique that reproduces actual events and processes under test conditions.
• size

  Number of participants or observations included in a study
• skewed

  A skewed distribution is when data in a chart lean either to the left or the right side of the scale, resulting in a non-symmetrical curve.
• snowball sampling

  A recruitment technique in which research participants are asked to assist researchers in identifying other potential subjects.
• social constructivist worldview

  A worldview wherein individuals seek understanding of the world in which they live and work.
• social networks analysis

  Social networks analysis (SNA) are connections and relationships between people or groups within a social network.
• social research

  A research conducted by social scientists or researchers following an orderly, rational, organised and methodically systematic way.
• social theory

  Refers to ideas, arguments, hypotheses, thought-experiments and explanatory speculations. About how and human societies, elements or structures of such societies are formed, change, and develop over time or disappear.
• socio-onomastics

  Theory that studies names of all kinds in a society
• software

  Collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks
• sources of research topic

  Refers to sources that provide direct evidence about a research topic.
• specific note

  Recorded information that is clearly defined or identified.
• specific objective

  Detailed objectives that describe what will be researched during study.
• specific

  Something clearly defined or identified.
• sponsored programs information network

  (SPIN) is searchable database of funding opportunities from national and international government and private funding sources.