Unit of Research
Unless it is obvious, state clearly the unit of research of the study
A unit of research, or "case", is a data collection unit, i. e. one data collecting act. In an online group voting study, a "case" could be a vote (choice measure), an individual (satisfaction measure), or a group (agreement measure). Each measure has to have only one unit of research, but the research as a whole could have all three. In a raw data table where the columns are variables, each row is a single case, e.g. if the rows are people then one person is one case. Often the unit of research is the subject, but it can be other things. The case affects the number of measurements (N) of the analysis, e. g. 90 subjects could give 900 votes (N=900), 90 satisfaction ratings (N=90 people), or 18 five person group agreement ratings (N=18 groups), depending on the study's case.
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