SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Social Inequality
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Subjects have the right to safety, privacy, confidentiality, informed risk: researchers cannot plagiarize. Experimental group: group that is exposed to the independent variable. Independent variable: presumed cause in a cause-effect relationship. Survey: research method in which people are asked questions about their knowledge, attitudes, or behaviour either face-to-face or in a telephone interview or completion of a questionnaire. Sample: part of the population of interest that is selected for analysis. Population: the entire group which the researcher wants to generalize. Two types of questions on a survey: closed-ended questions: provides respondent with a list of limited answers (numerical code for each answer, open-ended questions: allows respondents to answer in their own words. To ensure surveys elicit valid responses researchers shouldn"t: exclude part of population from sample, reject people who want to participate, allow subjects to answer dishonestly, ask confusing qs.
