PSYB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sample Size Determination, Stratified Sampling, Eye Tracking
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In the news: presidential election, favoured democrats, but republicans won. Surveys, polls, questionnaires: differences not important enough to worry about the difference- mean the same thing in this course, can ask about, attitudes, needs, desires, interests, behaviours, demographics. Sometimes will ask about all of these things: when looking at these instruments and questions, how did they operationalize the variables, the questions themselves operationalize the variables, ex: thinking about some different topics please indicate your support for: Look for: appropriate response options, comprehensive response options. Should include all the possibilities: above question doesn"t, mutually exclusive response options (no overlap) Ask on a scale of 1-5 etc. opinions about this: ask: Question wording problems: double-barreled, asks 2 questions instead of 1. Sometimes done to get agreement as to say you agree with both things: example: please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about the childcare program.
