Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

Subject Index 777
external states, 90
external validity, 113
EZ-Text (software), 521
faces scale, 340, 340–41
face-to-face interviews, 252, 256–58
face validity, 56
factor analysis, 330, 675–81; case example,
678–81; testing for unidimensionality,
335–36
factorial design, 124, 143–45, 144, 167,
236
factorial survey, 291–92
factor loading, 335, 677
farthest-neighbor analysis, 690, 691, 692
Feigl, Herbert, 19
Fei Xiaotong, 376
Fermat, Pierre, 16
FES (focused ethnographic study
method), 352–53
field experiments, 110, 131–33; ethics
and, 140–43
field experiments, comparative, 138–40
field notes, 387–412, 399, 402, 407; analyzing,
406–12; coding, 398–405, 399,
402, 407; diaries, 391–92; formal field
notes, 395–98; jottings, 389–91; logs,
392–94
field notes, analysis of, 406–12; database
management, 408–9; relational database
systems, 410–12, 411; text management,
406–7
field notes, formal, 395–98
fieldwork. See participant observation
Fifi effect, 139
filter questions, 272
finite population correction, 183
first demographic transition, 86
first-order correlation, 660
first quartile, 563
Fisher, Sir Ronald, 601
Fisher’s exact test, 614–15
fixed-choice questions, 268–70
flat files, 409, 409
flow charts: causal flow charts, 460–62;
contingency flow charts, 272, 273
focused ethnographic study method
(FES), 352–53
The Focus Group (Morgan and Krueger),
237
focus groups, 232–39; case examples,
234–36; data analysis, 238–39; moderating,
237–38; popularity, 233; size,
composition, and number, 237; validity,
236–37
folk taxonomies, 522, 534–40, 535;
branching tree diagrams, 539, 540;
building of, 537–39; covert categories,
534, 535, 536, 539; cultural domains
and, 536–37
Ford, Clellan S., 515
forward telescoping, 248
four-fold table, 605, 605
frame elicitation technique, 305–7,
537–38
Framingham Heart Study, 289
F-ratio, 600–601
free listing, 301–5
Freeman, Carla, 190
free pile sorts, 311–15, 315; lumper-splitter
problem, 313; networks and,
314–15; objects and, 313–14; P-3
game, 312; taxonomic trees and, 314
French Academy of Science, 10
frequency curves, 173, 577, 578, 579,
580
frequency distribution, 558–60, 558–61;
mean calculation, 566
frequency polygons, 173, 577, 578, 579,
580
Freud, Sigmund, 82
Frost, Robert, 19
Galileo, 8
Galton, Francis, 516
Galton’s Problem, 516
gamma, 615–19, 621; test of statistical
significance, 618–19