Ethicality Task

Ethicality

Task: look back at what you decided you could collect to investigate further after looking at the sample data. How could you make what you collect more comparable/ethical/reliable? Write a list of all the factors you consider including problems.

 

The data I decided that I could collect was the way in which a four year old interacted and talks with others. As I have already discussed, in order to make this data more reliable, I could collect it myself. I could take a series of recordings of conversations, and then transcribe them. Once transcribed, I could analyse my data, and look into relevant theories to try to apply them to the data that I find. This data would be unpublished, so I would need personal permission to do this investigation. When considering the reliability of my data, I considered the fact that the data may not be too reliable. This is because I would ask my family members if it was acceptable to record their conversations, and once they know I am doing this, they may begin to talk in different ways or act. This would affect the reliability of my results and the way in which language varies between ages as the conversations would not be natural.