SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ordinal Number, Operationalization, Content Validity
4 Feb 2020
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Abstract elements: example: love, we ask ourselves, what is love, subjective interpretations > objective, there is some consensus and reality of love , we may have to specify what love is and its domains. Reification: might treat something as real but it isn"t, treating processes that are objective as real but are not. In a research study, it is important to define what you believe: example: i believe mental health is . Attributes: example: male and female are the attributes of sex. Exclusive: you can only provide one option for your variable. Nominal: discrete categories that attributes exist in. Interval: similar to ordinal by ordering/ranking but with numbers. Number of clients second cup had within the past two months: ratio variable, true 0. Lutheran, angelican, mormon, baptist religious affiliations: nominal. Attitudes toward the death sentence: ordinal, ranking in support for or against.
