#10 Research Design (Part 1)

Social Research Methods by Armin Trost

Jun 23, 202035:21Science & Medicine

Research design relates to the architecture of your study. One major aspect is, whether you manipulate or just measure the independent variable. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here:

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