SOC 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sample Size Determination, Honestreporting, Design Of Experiments
13 Dec 2015
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When designing research consideration must be given to ethical problems. Research should be designed in such a way as to reduce or eliminate ethical problems. General considerations: harm to others (physical, emotional, psychological, social, harm to larger society, harm to oneself. Informed consent: anonymity and confidentiality, privacy, honest reporting, responsibility. Experimental design: is used to test hypothesis. Def: a statement of a casual relationships between 2 or more events (variables, or concepts) The casual event is called the independent variable. The event that is acted on by the independent variable is called the dependant variable: the ideal experiment controls or holds constant all other events in the environment that might conceivably effect the outcome. Such events are called control variables or extraneous variables: the researcher next manipulates the independent variable, either increasing or decreasing the magnitude, at the same time the researcher measures the dependant variable.
