SOAN 2120 Lecture 15: SOAN 2120 – Introductory Methods – Midterm Two Review
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Soan 2120 introductory methods midterm two review. If null hypothesis is correct, we reject it we have made the wrong decision (type i error) If null hypothesis is not correct, and we accept it, made the wrong decision (type ii error) It is harder to be 99% confidence than it is to be 95% confidence, easier to reject with 95% Cross-tab, education and happiness correlation, income and province analysis of variable. Field research: some things that field research includes is terminology, anthropology and focus groups, naturalism, observe people in small social settings over a small or large period of time. Issues: subjective biases can change the nature and structure of relationships, researchers are people with the objective of value free and neutral, subjective interpretations based on a limited amount of information. 2: others might come to different conclusions based on their observations.