SOCA02H3 Lecture : You're welcome
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healthy people (low, normal mortality) (low, normal mortality) 4 main methods in sociology research: field methods, experiments control & experimental groups, surveys, used in daily life (e. g. political polling). Used to gain some knowledge and ability in doing this kind of research. Interval data is when the # represents actual reality. one-to-one correspondents between # and what we are measuring is arbitrary (random) e. g. collecting data on income www. notesolution. com. ordinal data is used to measure people"s attitudes. # and the thing we"re measuring is arbitrary. qualitative data: it means quality, or a categorical variable (nominal=name) (e. g. ethnicity: analysis. Generalizability finding can be applied beyond specific case examined. Reliability degree to which a measurement procedure yields consistent results. Validity when the variable measures what it is intended to measure. Causality assessing cause and effect relations among variables. Questionnaires measure people"s beliefs and such (ordinal), background info and such (income) is (quantitative data)