BIOL 1F25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confounding, Random Assignment, Scatter Plot
24 Oct 2014
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Designs guide investigators in organizing the study, making observations and evaluating the results. A property of an object, organism, event, or something else that can take on different values. Sense of humour, some people seem to have more and some people have less of it. The details that define the variables or purposes of a specific study. For sense of humour the operational definition might be the score on the. The information collected when scientists collect observations about the variables of interest. Data might consist of the collection of scores on the coping humour scale from each individual in the sample. Not an attempt to explain a subject (why it happened) its an opportunity to present observations about the characteristics of the subject. Research questions address the appearance of a behaviour, its duration or frequency, its prevalence in population etc. To answer research questions researchers usually gather data using case studies, naturalistic observation and surveys and questionnaires.
