LABRST 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Slippery Slope, Circular Reasoning, Syntactic Ambiguity
3 Oct 2020
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No such thing as bias-free social science. A nding is bias when you ignore facts or evidence. From cultural in uences: social norms, family upbringing. Family factors can in uence behaviour later in life: religion. Degree of religiousness will in uence what questions are asked: geographic location. People who actually live in a country being spoke about will have a di erent perspective on what is happening there than people who don"t live in that country: education, friends, media. All these biases are lters of information. Information must be passed through these biases to be considered: one must accept, reject or consider the information, sometimes one must abandon/ surrender their previously held beliefs, but this is challenging. Begins with a topic and detailed observation. Ends by developing a conclusion or theory/ idea: deductive. Begins with a broad theory and ends with observations, a more concrete empirical study. Premises: reason why something is claimed.
