Question

Referencing the contents of "The Ten Commandments of Data Collection", and using your critical thinking skills, what must a researcher do to be well prepared to collect data?

Answer 1

Solution:

Apart from ten commandments of data collection, one should note down each and every source where she actually got the data and where she didnot receive it per her detailed schedule of finding resources. This helps the researcher to plan the next data collection process in a cost effective and less time consuming manner. Data collection method, though tedious and time consuming is the most important part of the research process. Not only, a correct research starts with it, but data collected in scientific way (following ten commandments) results into less erroneous conclusion. The essence of inferential statistics is conclusions based on sample data should be generalized to population. Therefore, sample collected should be representative of the population and also necessarily be biased free. Therefore, one should be attentive while collecting data.