SOCECOL 10 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Bell Curve, Interquartile Range, Ethnomethodology
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Se 10 final exam review list (terms, concepts, and examples) Criteria for good research questions (feasibility, importance, relevance) Data collection biases (overgeneralization, selective or inaccurate observation) Dimensions of causal validity (association, time order, nonspurious, mechanism, context) Interpretive biases (illogical reasoning, resistance to change) Three levels of ethics (data collection, data reporting, research discourse) Four main principles of ethics (harm, risk, informed consent, privacy/confidentiality) Responses to the bell curve (alderfer reading) Types of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) Types of measurement validity (face, criterion, construct) Validity in experiments (intervention complexity, contamination, external validity) Experiments vs. post-facto methods (including correlational designs) Probability samples (simple random, cluster, multistage cluster, stratified) Types of graphs (bar chart, histogram, frequency polygon) Measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) Measures of variation (range, interquartile range, variance, standard deviation) - Types of cases (normal, deviant, and critical) Grounded theory (basic premises of method + analysis)
