Category Archives: Methods

Survey is the most widely used technique in social science to gather data. There are different types of surveys —phone interviews, internet opinion polls, and variety in the types of questionnaires. They are all based on the ideals of the professionalized social research survey. Although there are those who claim that they will conduct aContinue reading “Survey research”

I have come across many books and articles on research methods that cover the logic of inquiry. But I have only read few that devote time to explain the logic of discovery, which Christopher Daya and Kendra L. Koivub (2018) describe “as a set of formal principles for devising a research question.” How does oneContinue reading “Research: The Search for Knowledge”

In my reading of a few books on social science methods, quantitative methods in the social sciences can be divided into two fields: statistical analysis and mathematical models. In this post, I want to take about an essential field in mathematical models: Game theory. Game theory is when one applies mathematical models to have anContinue reading “Game theory”