Edl300 Week 5 Research

Week 5 Research Methods

Michael Smith

AMU

INTL300

Prof. Liam O’Brien

Week 5 Research Methods

For the use on the hypothesis of “ what are the uses of PSYOP’s in the GWOT” two different research methods would prove advantageous, one of which would be Historical Research. The reason for the use of historical research being used, is with the data being collected in terms of PSYOPs. To effectively be able to prove PSYOP’s work in the GWOT there has to be empirical data or historical data that shows these claims. In OIF and OEF, the use of PSYOP’s was recorded and these pieces of information would be used and synthesized with comparison notes. What would make the difference in terms of data would be showing how effective the PSYOPs were through the OIF and OEF campaigns and to an extant before and after.

Reason of using this method opposed to sampling is the ability to fully derive the data that is provided from the mass quantity of post analysis seen in OIF and OEF that shows that indeed PSYOPs work in the GWOT. The data that would be provided would be seen in numbers and percentages in most cases, with the descriptive statistics there can be more inference on the use of PSYOPs supported by the numbers that are given.

While both of these methods would work in terms of the hypothesis, the research method that I will most likely chose would be the historical data research, in order to fully explain and support my hypothesis on the use of PSYOPs in the GWOT. While using the historical method, there can be use of critical and ethical method as well in order to explain why the use of PSYOPs work and more importantly, what uses they could be used in, in the