Video Transcript
A teacher asked their students to
collect data on the effect of action video games on children from different websites
on the Internet. What is the type of data
collected?
Let’s remember that there are two
ways of categorizing data types, that is, primary and secondary data. Primary data is new information
which is collected and organized by a researcher. Secondary data is public or
existing information which is collected and organized by others. Because we’re told that the
students are collecting information from websites, that’s a good indicator that this
will be a secondary data source. If the students here are trying to
understand the effect of action video games on children, then if it was a primary
data source, they’d need to be asking fellow students or children questions
themselves. However, because they’re using
information which is collected and organized by other groups, then this will be
secondary data.
