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C
ritical Thinking Questions
Developing your understanding
1. What are four major mechanisms for collecting data and when would you use each?
2. What are five basic principles you can use in capturing, collecting, or generating data?
3. What are three reasons for typical errors in data coming from each of these four areas: surveys,
experiments, observations, and transactions?