Methodology Outline
Method Description
Subtopic 
On the rubric, a 3 “Describes a replicable research
method, with questionable alignment to the purpose
of the inquiry.”
My approach is to explore the correlation between
Approach information and the decision-making process and how
information specifically targeted to either emotion
and/or logic connects to ease or conflict of decision. explain approaches is common within the social
 
My design is to conduct interviews with participants
Design
after giving them a survey on basic demographics.
Participants names will not be asked they will only be body of knowledge.
known on their surveys and interviews as “participant
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Primary/ Secondary
Type of Data I would be collecting primary data as there is not
really any secondary data on this topic. But, I will be
using scales from past research to quantify qualitative
data. The scale is in my Lit Review and it is called the
Dimensions of Decision Difficulty scale and provides
the main four dimensions to decision difficulty.
Independent/ Dependent
Variables My independent variables are the pamphlets that will
be given to participants. There will be three
independent variables with a control group. One
variable (pamphlet and variable will be synonymous
for my purposes) will provide entirely medically
accurate information appealing to logos; the second
will provide information appealing entirely to pathos
and will be taken from the information given by
Crisis Pregnancy Centers. The third pamphlet will
provide half information appealing to pathos and half
appealing to logos. The control will be given no
stimulus. The dependent variable is the ease or
difficulty in the decision-making process.
Quantitative
Applying answers from interviews to the DADD scale
(it is not super quantitative but it does organize it in a
similar fashion).
Method
Qualitative
Justification
On the rubric, a 4 and 5 “Logically defends the
alignment of a detailed, replicable research method to
the purpose of the inquiry.”
How do your approach and design fit into your Body
of Knowledge?
Deductive reasoning and the use of the explore and
sciences and my design of explore to find out more
about the correlation between information and the
decision-making process fits with the social science
How do the variables you plan to study connect to
your research question?
The variables I plan on studying align with my
research question because the goal of my research
question is to find which information aids the
decision making process the most. My independent
variables are the information and my dependent
variables are the different cohorts who receive the
independent variables/pamphlets. By making these
my variables I am able to conduct almost an
experiment to measure how the dependent variables
react to the independent variables thus finding the
most helpful information to aid the decision-making
process.
How does your method fit your research design?
Qualitative data and the exploration design often go
hand in hand. Idecided not to approach this through
an entirely qualitative method to maintain internal
validity of the data.
 I will conduct interviews with participants in which I
will ask the same questions for each group and
participant but each cohort will receive different
stimuli. They will be asked to rate their answers on a
scale of 1-5 with 1 being not at all confident/helpful
and 5 being incredibly confident/helpful.

Colorado females aged 14-24. How do your subjects connect to your research
question?
Subjects of My question specifically says that I am looking at the
decision-making process of females aged 14-24 in the
study
state of Colorado so I think the connection is pretty
air-tight.