SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Turnitin, Nomothetic, Sexual Orientation
11 Apr 2013
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Submit assignment 1 asap so that you can redo it if turnitin spotted errors! Summary due the 15th of february & class will be cancelled that day in order to make sure you get your work in on time. My group: group 1 ( drug use in schools ) Often, logic suggests that observed associations are not causal. I. e. because of a third variable; because of coincidence; etc. Idiographic explanations: credibility, whether rival hypotheses were seriously considered and found wanting. Nomothetic explanations: cause effect, two variables must be empirically correlated, relationship is not the result of a third variable. Condition must be present for the effect to follow (i. e. becoming pregnant not guaranteed to happen but if the conditions for it are present, there is always a chance of it happening) Condition guarantees the effect (i. e. if you don"t show up for an exam, you"ll fail it) May not be the only possible cause of an event.
