Data Collection Procedures Quiz

Data collection is the process of collecting and measuring information in a defined systematic fashion on variables of interest that allows one to answer specified research questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate results.

The implications of inappropriately gathered data include the inability to correctly address research questions, failure to replicate and verify the review, distorted results that have resulted in wasted money, misleading other researchers to seek fruitless lines of inquiry, compromising public policy options, and harming human and animal subjects.

Primary data refers to original data directly obtained from the original source, while secondary data is obtained from other sources and is readily accessible. The statistical result is from primary data.