SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Artificiality, Internal Validity, Western Electric
31 Jan 2017
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Their goal is to explain aggregate patterns of behaviour that are regular even though. The elements of the system are not individuals but not variables. Social scientific theories deal with aggregated and not individual behaviour individuals within the aggregates vary over time. These theories try to understand the system in which people operate. The outcome of the variable that is being caused by the iv. A variable that has an effect on the other. Possible other variable that might account for the relationship between x and y: temporal order, co-variation (association or correlation) But: correlation does not equal causation: non-spuriousness. When an apparently causal relationship between two variables is actually accounted for. Something that makes it look like one thing is causing it but in reality it is another thing. Spuriousness by a third variable (extraneous variable: z) An operation or procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to test a hypothesis (page 452)
