Scientific Canons The Effect Of Price Factor And Knowledge Acquisition Mechanism On The Selection Of Property Location.

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3.10 Scientific Canons

No doubt that in every research, there must be some errors that the researchers will come across. These errors should be avoided so that the research paper will achieve high quality and will be acceptable to be reviewed later. In order to achieve good results and comply with the iron triangle, I have examined some possible errors that may happen when conducting questionnaires and interviews later. The errors that is possible to occur when doing the process of data collection will be discussed according to the scientific canons. 3.10.1 Reliability i The respondents will blindly tick the answers on the questionnaires without reading it carefully. This attitude can either be associated with time, meaning that the respondents are not ready or do not have ample time to think the questions through before answering it or the fact that the respondents are scared that their identity would be reveal after answering all the questions. ii The questions constructed in the questionnaires might be confusing or having different meaning from the respondents’ understanding. Adding up to the error, the questions are going to be bilingual, which the Malay translation might have different meaning from the English sentences. Reliability is an important element in a research; it determines the quality of a research. A research is said to be in high quality if when conducting questionnaires and interviews, the results come out consistently, even if the other researchers are trying to replicate a certain research. In order to overcome these above weaknesses, there are two steps that I am going to be taken, which are: 33 i Conducting data collection process during weekends, since weekends are the time for most people to rest. Respondents will have ample time to read and think before they answer all the questions. Besides that, to protect their identity, I would not ask their personal information, since it is not needed to be known in my research paper. ii In order to reduce the error for the second problem, I would be having proof-reading session with several of my friends until their understanding are similar. Only then, I would be confident to distribute my questionnaires to respondents.

3.11 Summary