COM 470 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anomie, Socioeconomic Status, Binge Drinking
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It does not mean you have to check every box in order to be compassionate. Indicator: an observation that we choose to consider as a reflection of a variable we wish to study. Identify appropriate indicators and dimensions for : drinking. In measuring religious affiliation, is it sufficient to know what religion one is, or is denomination important: levels of measurement, nominal: variables who attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutually exclusiveness. E. g. gender, religious affiliation, hair color, major all have limitations (a finite amount: ordinal: variables with attributes we can logically rank order. Socioeconomic status, level of conflict, prejudice, conservativeness, hardness. Interval: variables for which the actual distance between attributes has meaning. Temperature (fahrenheit), i. q. score: ratio: variables whose attributes meet the requirements of an interval measure, and has a true zero point. Temperature (kelvin), age, length of time, number of organizations, number of groups, (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er of a"s re(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) (cid:272)ollege.
