SOCA02H3 Lecture : You're welcome
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science can figure out what happened to the universe (big bang), but not what caused the big bang. science cannot answer ultimate question for example what happen to us when we die? . science cannot answer ultimate questions because they are not empirical (facts) past experiences filters your perception, helps to shape how we see reality. putting biases out there for everyone to see before the experiment will tell everyone the biases in the outcome. Descriptive trend (observational trend: from 1952 to 2002 the divorce rate rose from 15% to 50% of all marriages. Infant mortality rate in canada in 2001: population in scarborough in 2009. Explanatory studies (tries to explain facts: the children of upper income parents are more likely to attend university, does the economy influence rate of common crime. Both descriptive & explanatory studies are commonly used by governments to implement policies (social accounting)
