SOCECOL 13 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Simple Random Sample, Confounding, Standard Deviation
1 Dec 2016
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Lecture #1: state, state-craft (the art and science of governing a state or nation), decision-making with big data, 2 types of major decision-support tools. Descriptive statistics compresses or distills complicated situations into a few more easily grasped elements. Inferential statistics starts with a few well-formed but simple elements and reconstructs complicated situations. Chapter 1: the benefits and risks of using statistics benefit: enables us both to acquire a simpler grasp of complicated situations and to reconstruct complicated situations from simple summaries risk: poorly executed, stats can mislead or worse. 7 statistical tools for skeptics: source, contact, units of analysis and sampling, measurement, context, 3rd factors. What alternative group characteristics might affect the outcome of interest: effect size. : iq test not a valid measure of happiness key: know exactly what was measured: reliable measurement: will give you or anyone else the same result time after time, when taken on the same object or individual ex.
