Given below are two statements

Statement I: Exploration is particularly useful when researchers lack a clear idea of the problems they will meet during the study.

Statement II: Through exploration, researchers develop concepts more clearly, establish priorities, develop operational definitions, and improve the final research design.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

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  1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true
  2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
  3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false
  4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

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Option 1 : Both Statement I and Statement II are true
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 Key PointsStatement I: Exploration is particularly useful when researchers lack a clear idea of the problems they will meet during the study.

  • Exploratory research is often conducted because a problem has not been clearly defined as yet, or its real scope is as yet unclear.
  • It allows the researcher to familiarize him/herself with the problem or concept to be studied, and perhaps generate hypotheses to be tested.
  • It is the initial research, before more conclusive research is undertaken.
  • Exploratory research helps determine the best research design, data collection method, and selection of subjects, and sometimes it even concludes that the problem does not exist.

Hence statement I is correct.

Statement II : Through exploration, researchers develop concepts more clearly, establish priorities, develop operational definitions, and improve the final research design.

  • Exploratory research can be quite informal, relying on secondary research such as reviewing available literature
  • It can also be based on qualitative approaches such as informal discussions with consumers, employees, management, or competitors, through in-depth interviews, focus groups, projective methods, case studies, or pilot studies.
  • The results of exploratory research are not usually useful for decision-making by themselves, but they can provide significant insight into a given situation.
  • In other words, the results can neither be generalized; they are not representative of the whole population being studied.

Hence statement II is correct.

Hence, both statement I and statement II are correct.

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