Defining key terms
Primary research: This type of method is where you come up with your own ideas into doing research by doing various things such as interviews, questionnaires, market research, and experiments. So it is all an independent research. This can help you achieve this research by using a range of methods and techniques espically in interviews when looking for a job as you have to show your skills in questioning or talking about how it is benifit to be hired for a certain job. Other techniques that you can use in primary research are questionaires as you have to use certain methods of questions depending on the topic that you want to research. Primary research can be a big help to people because they can focus on both qualitative and quantitative issues. An example of primary research could be that the chief wants to know if people are pleased with the food that he cooks, so he hands out questionnaires to customers asking if they are happy and ,if not, how to improve.
Secoundary research: This type of method is where you have a look at existing data to help you get and idea in your research by looking at examples. It can make you aware about certain techniques to put in which can help you by knowing what the other person has done by you observing theirs. An example could be things like making movies or music video ad you could get ideas from what sort of methods are used for movies with things such as camera shots and the techniques used to make them can help to make your own movie by getting those ideas and that all helps with secoundary research.
Quantitative research: This research is based on finding ceartain fact depending on what facts you wnat to find that will help with the research as it gives alot of information and explains alot which will be good for this type of research if u whant to find informtion such as football as it gives facts about the teams and where each team is on the leagues.
The box office above is an example of quantitative research as it has the information that is needed for the box office. The box office figures gives information on all the latest movies coming to cinema and more facts of the actors in the movie. It shows which movie is on top of another movie, by doing top 10s , to give the facts of what is the latest number one movie so far. It explains how each movie has come out and can beat other movies to get first place in the top 10. The box office figure also shows how long it will take for the movie to come out and how much it has cost to produce.
The box office above is an example of quantitative research as it has the information that is needed for the box office. The box office figures gives information on all the latest movies coming to cinema and more facts of the actors in the movie. It shows which movie is on top of another movie, by doing top 10s , to give the facts of what is the latest number one movie so far. It explains how each movie has come out and can beat other movies to get first place in the top 10. The box office figure also shows how long it will take for the movie to come out and how much it has cost to produce.
Qualitative research: This research is based on people opinons and views on things and this research will be on people's views and will not be fact based. Topics like movie reviews is suitable for this research as this can help with lots of opinions on movies. This can help you decide on what to think movies with the views and opinions as most opinions could say thet the movie was terrible or the movie was great, so this can help with the research on certain things like movies or music as peoples opinions can help you decide if you think this movie is worth watching.
