SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Random Number Generation, Social Desirability Bias, Sampling Distribution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

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Soan 2120 introductory methods final exam review: worth 30% - 28 are questions from the lecture and 27 are from the text, 5 nvivo, 3 math (bonus) Ex: happiness pre and post mushrooms, marijuana and water (happier) Survey research this type of research does not manipulate the subjects, instead we ask them a number of questions which give us a variable (through phone, mail, internet) Strengths rich, descriptive detailed information for sensitive issues. Limitations time consuming, expensive and effective for dependent. Continuous you can rank them in a numerical way (ex: education years, income dollars) Categorical you cannot rank this data (ex: categories - field of study, relationship status: ordinal level the possi(cid:271)le (cid:448)alues a(cid:396)e all put i(cid:374)to a(cid:374) o(cid:396)de(cid:396) (cid:894)(cid:862)i(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374)(cid:863)(cid:895) Likert scale on a scale ranging from 5 strongly agree 1 strongly disagree: quantitative grouping grouping people together (ex: based on age or income)