SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Standard Deviation, Squared Deviations From The Mean, Statistical Significance

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

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This research explained the way the nazis behaved and ran germany. Humphries, l. (1970) tearoom trade: impersonal sex in public places. Phd dissertation: tearoom trade (homosexual encounters in public restrooms) Informed consent (they didn"t know they were participating in a field study) He did not earn his phd because the research that was done was not ethical. There should be no way that people should be able to identify the participant from the study. Priority has to be given to the participants of the study. Researcher: cost benefit analysis: moral versus knowledge. Institutional control: conservative (moral and legal considerations) Fascinating and creative ideas: criminal behaviour, compromising and life threatening position. The law is a tricky area for social researchers. Research that is analyzed through quantitative data, it might not be necessary to go through a ethics review boards, where as qualitative methods (words) mostly always goes through a ethics review board. Statistics that summarizes the central location of variables.