SOC222H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interval Ratio, Computer File, Operationalization
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It refers to a set of procedures used by social scientists to organize, summarize, and communicate information. The information we are summarizing must be turned into numbers to be subject to a statistical analysis. Also refers to the numerical summary of some characteristic in a sample of data. How are you going to measure these variables? (do females like statistic courses more than men) Data processing: transforming the data collected into a form appropriate to manipulation and analysis (coding the data we collect into numbers for storage in a computer file) When deciding on how well a set of indicators in the real world (variables) measures a concept we are interested in studying. The percentage of adults approving of trudeaus policy will be greater among younger age groups than older age groups . Every variable must have the following 2 qualities to be valid: It"s categories must be mutally exclusive (they have to be different, cannot share the same quality)
