PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Statistical Inference, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Set of procedures that is use to get meaningful information from observations. Finding out if the results can be generalized from a sample. Ideas of probability need to be brought in. Statistics is designed to help you learn and use the scientific method. Object observations: when you look at something, someone else observes the same thing. Subjective observation: when different conclusions are come upon. Jeff"s boston fern needs to be watered to survive, therefore all boston ferns need to be watered to survive. Ed and natasha both observed that when they deprived 5 boston ferns of water, they died. All boston ferns need to be watered to survive, therefor jeff"s boston fern needs to be watered to survive. Hair color (variable name) black, blond, etc (levels) You can have relationships between variables when there"s an associated between one variable and another. Hair color-> all red hair= constant (only one option) You need central tendency (what most people like)