SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toronto Star, Dependent And Independent Variables, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
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Ungar displays pictures of 4 families in the toronto star: Class family composition single family race race gender class family size age context. Sociologists would study using a much bigger and random sample. Variables - take on two or more values (examples can vary) Religion, also you can study the degree of how religious you are (you have to ask) Ses (sociological economic status): it is a measure of your status based on your occupation. E. g. year and gender will always be absolute independent variables, mainly because we cannot affect it. Generalizability: assessing the relevance of finding beyond the case studied (studying the sample to get a representation of the overall population) Causality: assessing cause and effect relations among variables. Table 1: gender by drinking behaviour (2x2 table) This is when you are doing percentages in the wrong direction. Third variable: size of the fire (draw arrows that point towards # of tucks and damage: e. g.
