SOCI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Official Statistics, Sexual Assault, Immigration Policy
12 Mar 2019
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Or using processed data (from government agencies) like. Advantage: they are non-reactive (no interaction between you and the subject) What gets classified as sexual assault involves filtering through the police department and criminal justice system. There is a general problem that official statistics are issued normally for aggregates which imply the ecological fallacy. People tended to market themselves in terms of lifestyle choices. Someone who likes long walks in the country. Women stressed economic resources in a preferred partner. A somewhat larger tendency for women to emphasize their physical appearance. Determine the unit of analysis and/or the units of observation. Use any sampling technique that seems appropriate. If you"re counting the number of times some word related to romance appears in a movie in order to determine how romantic some movies are determine how romantic some movies are. Counting words might not characterize the things you want to capture.
