APA 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fallacy, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Circular Reasoning
4 Apr 2016
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Recent technology (social media, texing) can connect people eiciently, it altogether detracts people from communicaing in person. Instant access, lower quality communicaion (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree. All researchers no mater what type of research they conduct: Examine paterns to understand and explain the phenomena of interest. Language of variables and hypotheses (if then statements, predict what we expect to ind) Types of variables: iv, dv, control, intervening (pa) Idenify levels (social reality) and units of analysis (used in research study to collect data individuals, insituions, macro-level?) Important to match unit and level of analysis. Mismatch of units of analysis (making conclusions about an individual based on those results) Reducionism: confusion of units of analysis (want to make statement of analysis, but have only collected data from individuals whole is more than the sum of its parts) Spuriousness: variables related but relaionship is not causal (ice cream sales & murder rates in nyc, another variable causes the change)
