SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dependent And Independent Variables, Alternative Hypothesis, Null Hypothesis
24 Jan 2018
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Importance of context: meaning is situational, cases as the unit of analysis, all the cases are each person studied, not using numbers, explaining why people create the meanings they do, qualitative mostly. Deductive reasoning: theory, people who use social media have self esteem affected, hypothesis. Increased use of social media affects self esteem: observation, set us a survey on social media use (how often/follow count/how you view yourself/ etc. , everyone gets the same questions, confirmation, data either confirms or discomins the hypothesis, qualitative. Independent variable- cause: e. g. social media use, because it affects self esteem, dependent variable - effect. Intervening variable: might be something else that affects the results, e. g. could be the platform, etc, hypothesis, what is the relationship between the iv and dv, positive evidence, e. g. More social media use causes higher self esteem: negative evidence, e. g. Discover and describe meaning after researcher immersion in data. Created in an ad hoc manner data collection.
