What is a Research Question?
- Research Question
- can be answered
- improve understanding of how the world works
- from Theory to Hypothesis
Theory
An explanation of why the things we observe happen, or otherwise generalizes what we observe in one situation to another situation.
Hypothesis
A specific statement about what you will observe in the data.
- A good test for whether a research question informs theory is to imagine that you find an unexpected result, and then wonder whether it would make you change your understanding of the world