The process of research

Fish man uses a method of coding to do her research. The first thing to do so is to come up with categories in which she will compare both shows. Then she will watch an episode of the first show, checking off the number of times her catergory is present in that episode, then she will do the same for the next show. She does this with a number of episodes until she was statisitical analysys of the ideals. Some examples of her catergories are the number of suspects taken into custody, how many times photos were shown of victims etc. Fishman then uses her data to compare, suport or deny her idelogies of the shows.