Questioning Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research - Softcover

Wilkins, Karin

 
9780199747399: Questioning Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199747393 ISBN 13: 9780199747399
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Questioning Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research is a critical companion for students in research methods courses in any of the social sciences. This book helps teach students how to read and critique research that employs numbers in the course of empirical argument. Author Karin Gwinn Wilkins provides a list of guidelines for reading research and also presents a critical approach to judging and using numbers in navigating and changing social worlds.

Illuminating the agendas and politics that can inform how research is conducted and interpreted, this text shows readers how to read and critique research contexts, research design, sampling strategies, definitions, research implementation, data analysis, and interpretation. It also provides strong pedagogical support, including key terms, review exercises, and end-of-chapter reflection questions.

A flexible supplement to more comprehensive research texts, Questioning Numbers helps students to become more critical consumers and producers of quantitative research across the social sciences.

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About the Author

Karin Gwinn Wilkins is a Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199747393
ISBN 13 
9780199747399
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
128