Research Methods

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Across
  1. 2. people behaving differently because they are being studied
  2. 3. important ethical principle of research
  3. 4. middle value in data set
  4. 7. when a control group works extra hard and beats the experimental group (4,5)
  5. 10. ratio of the probability of a health condition in an exposed group divided by the probability in a non-exposed group (8,4)
  6. 11. a type of question
  7. 12. parametric test for correlation analysis
  8. 13. for example: collecting more data after your statistical analysis until you find a significant effect (1,7)
  9. 14. non-parametric test for correlation analysis
  10. 17. parametric test to compare two conditions or groups (1,4)
  11. 19. research method that involves asking questions in an online or in-person meeting
  12. 23. whether you measure what you aim to measure
  13. 25. sum of all values in data set divided by the number of values
  14. 26. a characteristic of scientific research
  15. 28. this is as important as significance (6,4)
  16. 30. repeatability of the test or study, or agreement between two people assigning scores to footage for example
  17. 32. threat to research quality, comes in all kinds
  18. 34. how peaked the distribution of your data is
  19. 35. research simultaneously implementing and studying an intervention, whereby the data is used to optimise the intervention during the study (6,8)
  20. 36. when the distribution of your data is not symmetrical
  21. 37. one method to find participants for your study
Down
  1. 1. research method that systematically collates studies on a topic and then analyses all the data (4,8)
  2. 5. when your p-value is below 0.05
  3. 6. most common value in data set
  4. 8. statement that you test with an experiment
  5. 9. a symmetrical bell-shaped distribution
  6. 15. non-parametric test for comparing two independent groups (4,7)
  7. 16. chance of finding a significant effect of supplement X with your study given that X really has an effect
  8. 18. research questionnaire
  9. 20. person responding to your call for participants
  10. 21. study of distribution and determinants of health conditions and associated risk factors in specified populations
  11. 22. basic research principle described by Popper
  12. 24. non-parametric test for paired-sample analysis
  13. 26. analysis of data that you did not collect yourself
  14. 27. agreement scale often used in questionnaires
  15. 29. sampling method that keeps proportions as in population
  16. 31. test for a relationship
  17. 33. American philosopher who talked about normal and revolutionary science (6,4)