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The research question is the most important part of the whole research. A correct question helps you to conduct your research in an easy and flexible way.

In this paper, I will show you how to formulate a correct research question. In addition, I will show you why certain research questions are not good and how you can improve them.

If you still have to start your research, this is the best investment you can make. I'm sure this will prevent you from feeling stupid, or experiencing feelings of abandonment when your research is a mess.

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I have read many research reports in which it was completely unclear how the sample was drawn. Most researchers just do something what they think is right. Usually, the reason for this behaviour is missing. Nevertheless, the selection of a good sample is crucial. It determines the quality of your research and with a poor sample, the research loses a lot of quality.

Nine forms of sampling can be distinguished. If you apply the correct method correctly in a given situation, you will get a representative response. Then you will have done well. If you do it wrong, your research can become meaningless.

In this paper I explain which methods are available and how to apply them.

A very important topic in research is representativeness. Perhaps it is even the most important topic. In the case of a non-representative response, not all of the conclusions that can be drawn may be justified. Unfortunately, even many scientists treat this subject incorrectly.

Different views on representativeness can be distinguished. One of these is taking a random sample. However, it can be demonstrated that with random sampling at least five percent of the samples will be non-representative.

Very often, researchers claim to have drawn a representative sample. However, a representative sample is not the problem. A representative response is required. A non-representative sample can even be used as a strategy to get a representative response. All this is explained in this paper.

If you want to improve the quality of your research, make sure you have a representative response. You can learn how to achieve this in this paper.

Statistics are essentially very simple. It is about calculating a number with the data and comparing this number with a number in a table. Is that all? Yes that's all.

However, you must know how to calculate the number with your data and you must know which number to compare it to. For this, you must followed a procedure.

This procedure is described in detail in this paper. Some steps in the procedure are simple, others are more difficult and need more thinking time. In the beginning, it might look impossible to learn, however, when you become more experienced, you will be able to complete the whole procedure in a split second.

When you have analyzed the data, a new problem arises: How to present the results in a report?

It is not permitted to copy the results of statistical software programs and paste these in a paper. In fact, an estimated ninety-nine percent of the numbers in the statistical software output of the  can be deleted. Only a few digits are required.

A distinction must be made between presenting the results in text and presenting the data in tables. Slightly fewer numbers are presented in tables.

This paper provides a guideline for presenting statistical results. When the rules in this paper are followed, fine-looking tables are produced that are consistent with the rules of many scientific journals.