Selecting the sample:
- What are the sample selection biases?
- How do you avoid sampling on the dependent variable?
- How do you select samples for international comparisons?
- How do you figure out what is missing?
- What kinds of recordings are useful?
- What kinds of recordings do you exclude?
- How do you construct training samples?
- How can you use a power analysis to establish your sample size?
Developing the ethogram:
- What do you look for when watching closely?
- What kinds of behavior do you include?
- How interpretive do you code?
- How do you consider the context?
- How do you reduce complexity?
- What kinds of behavior to you designate to individuals?
- What kinds of behavior to you designate to collectives?
- How important is the duration?
- When do you need time-stamped versus global coding?
- When are you done with your observations?