In the case of applications for studies that have yet to take place, it is fine to take a position regarding the answer you expect to find or which hypotheses you expect to still be standing at the completion of your analysis. [...] An adequate proposal will include a review of 2 the scholarly literature that is relevant to the research problem to demonstrate that the applicant is equipped with the theoretical and factual knowledge required to tackle the problem. [...] (It is best to avoid the invocation of the most-discussed social theorists of the day if the purpose is mainly to demonstrate your erudition rather than to help your evaluators understand how your study connects to previous work on your topic.) One justification for funding we often read in applications is that “surprisingly little research” has been conducted on the topic proposed. [...] If you intend to elicit the perspectives of people directly involved in a form of violence, it’s important to indicate your awareness of the limitations of this approach. [...] If even simple quantitative comparisons between groups are to be made, are the samples large enough to reveal differences between the groups that are unlikely to be due to chance? Are the people you’ll be interviewing or surveying truly representative of the group you think they represent? Have you given thought to problems of selection bias, confounding variables, and other sources of error? Thes.
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