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Interviews - Coggle Diagram
Interviews
Structured Interviews
Like questionnaires given to individuals or groups, except an interviewer asks them the questions
Ask the same questions each time, they're closed questions with set multiple-choice answers
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The main positive over a postal questionnaire is that the interviewer can explain and clarify the questions
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Disadvantages
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Interviewer has to follow the list of questions so they can't ask for more detail if the respondent says something particularly interesting
Unstructured Interviews
Informal, with no rigid structure
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Good for researching sensitive issues where the interviewer has to gain the respondent's trust e.g. sexuality, DV or crime
Use open-ended questions and give qualitative data, they're quite valid
Used with smaller samples, means they're not very representative
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Takes a long time to write up an unstructured interview - have to write down a whole conversation, not just the answers
An interview is a conversation between a researcher and an interviewee where the researcher asks a set of questions
Have to pick the sample, organise the interview, select/train interviewers, ask the questions and record the answers
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Interviewer Effects
Respondents in interviews may give the sort of answer they think the interviewer wants to hear - or the exact opposite, if they're feeling uncooperative
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