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Pros and Cons of Unobtrusive Research

15 October, 2015 - 14:26

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify the major strengths of unobtrusive research.
  2. Identify the major weaknesses of unobtrusive research.
  3. Define researcher bias.
  4. Define the Hawthorne effect.

As is true of the other research types examined in this text, unobtrusive research has a number of strengths and several weaknesses.