Chapter 12 True/False Quiz

. Available data consist of both verbal and nonverbal materials.

. Individual-level census records are released to the public after a period of seventy-two years.

. Big data refer to voluminous written records that must be sampled to analyze.

. Available data often require indirect measures that approximate the variables of interest.

. Two strengths of written record as available data are that it is likely to be complete and unbiased.

. Like descriptive historians, analytical historians tend to rely on primary sources.

. There may be more than one valid interpretation of a historical event.

. The goal of content analysis is to arrive at a textured qualitative description of written communications.

. The use of available data is better suited than other approaches to the study of properties and changes in social structure.

. Research using available data is usually more difficult to replicate than other approaches to social research.

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