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The study Demissie & Tesfahun 2017 use a positivism stratage to identifies the determinants and levels of rural households‘vulnerability to poverty by using the quantitative method. They use the the 2010/2011 HCE data set for analysis.

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Jarman 2020 uses the research method of empirical research, which uses the form of interview + questionnaire for research.

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The reading states that 'qualitative research frequently exhibits features that one would associate with a natural science model.' What are these features?

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Look at the second reading and give some examples of testable hypotheses

Students with higher attendance achieve higher grades.

Men experience more financial problems from gambling than women.

People will obey the orders of someone they think is in a position of authority.

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What implications does positivism have for research methodology and methods?
The role of research is to test theories and to provide material for the development of laws. genuinely scientific; they must be susceptible to the rigours of observation
Positivism can cause a lack of in-depth understanding of situations

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Taylor et al 2020 use the quatatitive method to investigated the prevalence of food
insecurity among undergraduate college students (N = 524) in
a poverty area. This method can be  identified as use positivism.

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About group2's answer on the drawbacks of positivism,we'd like to add some contents:
Finally, the potential inaccuracy of scientific data collected should be reviewed carefully as in some situations respondents may choose random answers rather than authentic responses or they could not be allowed to have the flexibility to give their own answers, which may be more relevant to their personal cases.
Group1 and 2 is doing well and have the same answer with our group.

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What potential benefits and drawbacks of positivism are mentioned in the reading?
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Benefits:
(1) Positivist researchers may have a high quality standard of validity and reliability and can be generalised to the large scale of population.
(2) when it comes to the methodologies and methods that collect and analyse data based on evidence and statistics, the results of researching the same event or phenomena, may be possible to ‘replicate for different groups or subgroups of population in social contexts. As the result, the researchers can save time and investments for using the findings of specific study for future quantitative predictions (Johnson & Onwuegbuzie, 2004)’.
Drawbacks:
(1) It may be impossible to measure phenomena related to intention, attitudes and thoughts of a human because the concepts profoundly may not explicitly be observed or measured with sense experience or without evidence. This results in some constraints in further exploring abstract conceptualisation commonly developed around human relationship.
(2) Since the objective of positivism is to generalise the result of the research at the large degree, there is a risk that individuals whose understanding and interpretation related to any events or issues can reveal a lot of truth about reality may be neglected.

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Look at the second reading and give some examples of testable hypotheses

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Looking at the studies viewed in weeks 2 and 3, can you locate any that demonstrate positivist thinking?

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The reading states that 'qualitative research frequently exhibits features that one would associate with a natural science model.' What are these features?

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What potential benefits and drawbacks of positivism are mentioned in the reading?