SOCI 2P11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dependent And Independent Variables, Internal Validity, Blind Experiment
22 Nov 2012
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Remind it is voluntary and won"t be penalized for withdrawal and can withdrawal at any time. Abc 20/20 what would you do, racism in america. Had a group of 3 white kids and 3 black kids vandalizing a car. Wanted to see how many people called the cops on each group of kids. More calls made when it was the group of black kids vandalizing the car. A research method used to test a hypothesis that predicts a relationship between two variables. Compares two groups of observations under two conditions that are identical in every way expect one. Specially designed to satisfy the criteria for causality. Demonstrates whether a causal relationship exists between two variables: most effective for identify the three criteria for causality. Weed out things that would affect the dependent variable. Researchers can control when and what point in time the groups are exposed to the dependent variable.
