SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Central Tendency, Government Issue
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Review of day 3 material: reliability and validity, goal of quantitative research, measurement, establishing causality, generalization, replication, goal of qualitative research, empathic understanding, rich description of context, emphasis on process. Your height to the nearest half inch: 167. Time you woke up this morning ( hr:min to the nearest 15min) 7 :10. Haven"t heard it 1 star 2 stars 3 stars 4 stars 5 stars. Levels of measurement: nominal- name, gender: male female, categorical, create a mode, type of interpersonal violence. Create a mode, the one that have the most. Cant manipulate type: ordinal extent of interpersonal violence, order, source, organize, a kind of direction, low medium, high. Can be measure using medium (the central tendency), line them up and middle point. Yes, no, maybe or left center right. Likic scale: interval provide information about order, equal distance between each of the opinion.
