SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dependent And Independent Variables, Content Analysis, Socioeconomic Status
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Helps us to focus and filter out noise 2: scientific research questions or questions, research method, data sources, gather data, analyze data, report your findings. Uses both quantitative and qualitative data e. g. , surveys and interviews. Statistical analysis: determining significant relationships between variables. A tentative statement about a particular relationship that can be tested empirically. Independent variable (x) : can be varied or manipulated. Dependent variable (y) : is the relation (or lack thereof) to the manipulation. Creating it for the purposes of the study. Measures how strongly two variable are related. One variable causes a change in the other variable. Step 6: submit ethics application and wait for approval: Nazi medical experiments: important because researchers lacked respect and the appropriate way to conduct an experiment back in the 1900"s. Experimented on prisoners without their consent provided with the cure. Tuskegee syphilis experiments : did research on black men without their consent and weren"t.
