| A | B |
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| BIZNAR | a search engine specializing in business topics |
| CREDIBILITY | a source that is objective, unbiased, has this quality |
| DATA | bits of information; plural of the word datum |
| IXQUICK | a search engine which does not track the user |
| METHODOLOGY | the methods by which the data were gathered |
| OPERATIONAL DEFINITION | the methods by which the variable was measured |
| PERIODICAL | a generic term for a periodically recurring serial publication, such as a newspaper, magazine, newsletter, trade publication, or scholarly (academic) journal |
| PRIMARY RESEARCH | research in which original data were collected by the author |
| SECONDARY RESEARCH | research in which the author only read about and assembled data collected by someone else |
| RECENCY | when the data were collected is a measure of |
| REFERENCE WORKS | encyclopedias, almanacs, government reports |
| THEORY | an abstract concept used to understand the data |
