CMST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Validity, Cruelty To Animals, System On A Chip

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2A03
• Professor: Terry Flynn

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What problem would you solve if you had a million dollars: how people interact with machines, animal cruelty, how to prevent cancer, how other cultures live. Why did you ask that: curiosity, morality, destructiveness, many people care about it (cid:1) (cid:1) Theres often a tendency to seek causal relationships. We tend to rush from interesting questions like who what where (cid:1) when how to the notion of causation the trick is to ask the right questions. Theories of the middle range: the medium is the message, exposure to violent tv makes people hit each other. Theories are made up of related, verifiable statements. 3-related statements: deterministic one thing causes another, probabilistic go together with regularity. Kids watching itchy and scratchy and hitting each other a lot. There are two sciences: one is people and studying public and, the other is scientist, physics. What is appropriate for the subject matter is important (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)