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Field Research

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Field research studies people in their natural setting rather than a laboratory or a questionnaire, recording behavior where it actually happens.

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A researcher studying restaurant work learns more from a month of shifts than from a survey of cooks.

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The setting cannot be controlled, so the researcher trades control for realism.