SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Standard Deviation, Statistical Significance, Central Tendency

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Know how past research has played a role in research today. Understand the role of distributions, measures of central tendency. Multiple choice tests allow all students to be evaluated the same. Allows for a large number of students being measured and faster grading time, hence more reliable. Essay format is more thorough and comprehensive. Is everybody measured by the same criteria, is it biased. Essays are used in classes with small body of students. The truth is that all of these methods have strengths and weaknesses that can be used in a variety of instances. Milgrams" test of obedience in the video is used more for ethics research than social experiments. His test showed that normal and everyday people can conduct harm by shocking people, even to the point of plausible death, can cause emotional distress, depending on the outcome. No, this study now goes against the basic ethics of research.

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