2. To gather other people’s opinions through
questionnaires.
To gather information to prove or disprove
their hypothesis.
3. A hypothesis is a statement which is
used as a research point which at the
end is either proved or disproved
depending on the research you have
collected.
4. You need to pick one of the following
hypothesis and carry out research to prove
or disprove it.
You need to collect research through the
different techniques we have looked at:
◦ Questionnaires
◦ Internet
◦ Magazines/ Newspapers
◦ Interviews
With the information create a poster with
facts and key points on and say whether
your hypothesis was proved or disproved.
5. Everybody over 12 owns a mobile phone.
Mobile phones are dangerous to peoples
health.
People older than 50 don't watch TV.
Only 5% of people will recycle at home.
Or create your own.
6. Keywords
A keyword search will allow the user to
carry out a search that will look for
documents and websites that contain
one or more of the specified words.
7. Wildcards
This search involves the use of symbols
‘?’ and ‘*’ to replace individual letters,
or sequences of letters.
This is useful when you do not know
how to spell the word.
◦ ? - You can use a question mark to replace a single character.
◦ * - You can use a asterisk to represent several characters, or ‘zero’
characters.
Zero characters gives you the option of looking for a character that may or not
be there.
8. Advanced Searches
When using an advanced search this allows
you to narrow down your results through
providing the search engine with more
information about what it is you are exactly
looking for.
Google
Advanced
search.
9. Hits
Hits on a search engine are the number of
results which the website finds based on your
search.
Using different search techniques will help
you to reduce the number of hits you get.
The least hits you get the more relevant your
search is.
