KINESIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Relative Risk, Confounding, Dependent And Independent Variables
19 Apr 2016
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Science is a body of knowledge: gathering information to explain or predict how things work. Science is a way of acquiring knowledge: a way of posing and answering questions. Research is an intellectual investigation: purpose is to discover, interpret and revise. Our way of ensuring that our predictions and explanations are based in fact: can be reproducible. Using an analytical approach to evaluate a research question: how you set up a study to examine the association between 2 or more variables. Isolate variables: variables are measurable characteristics that change in the environment. The research idea that organizes facts and guides observations: always involves a prediction, the prediction must be testable. Does it measure what you think its measuring: affected by inadequate/improper procedures. Is it reproducible: being able to get the same results over and over again. Submission to a journal: peer reviewed, accepted or rejected. Research writing: abstract, written last (essentially a summary)
