Exam 11: Less Obtrusive Methods

Police in Virginia once used ________ techniques to learn times and locations of gunfire and then used that information to cut down on that problem.

What type of study do the scholars who developed the Maryland Scientific Methods Scale (SMS), believe is the minimum level that is adequate for systematic reviews and meta-analysis?

Doing a study by taking data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics website is known as _____________.

What must research participants do in order to ensure good validity in simulations?

Individual-level data in freely available datasets are always de-identified before the datasets are made available.

Conducting a systematic search of newspaper coverage of murders of children of different races is an example of ______________.

When conducting a systematic review or a meta-analysis, we have to do a good literature search in order to avoid __________ bias.

Red literature databases provide lists of unpublished research.

Which type of research might involve long hours of watching television?

Marking crime scene locations on a geographical representation of the area in order to see a pattern is an example of ____________________.

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews differ only in that meta-analysis includes more sophisticated statistical techniques.

Latent content are obvious, clearly measurable items.

What is publication bias? Why is it a problem for systematic and meta-analyses, and what can be done to address it?

Agency records being used for crime mapping are usually ready for analysis as soon as the agencies share the data with the researchers.

What are the pros and cons of using agency records to study juvenile offending?

If we are watching military recruitment commercials and noting how many of them appeal to people's desire for action and adventure, we are searching for _______ content.

A _____________ would allow us to re-create what might be a dangerous situation in real life without actually putting any research participants in danger.

How might variable selection for a study be problematic in secondary data analysis?

Researchers planning to do crime mapping using addresses from police reports should set aside time to ________ the dataset prior to doing analysis.

Simulations usually have high validity.