SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stirling County Rfc, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Psychophysiology
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*doesn"t expect us to know structural equations or anything related to statistical shit. Measurement is the link b/w concepts and reality so when someone says i feel really angry it"s not that a thousand different ideas about that pop up. Generally we share a collective sense of what anger is. Mirkowsky and ross set up how we measure distress. It"s supposed to represent people"s feelings and thoughts but people perceive it. Measures represent people"s feelings, emotions and thoughts as perceived and reported by people themselves: psychological distress is a difficult concept to measure but this means that researchers. What are the two major forms of measurement? need to put a great deal of thought and effort into measurement not abandon it: diagnostic categorical forms of measurement versus more continuous levels of measurement. You have indices on one hand symptoms of depression versus depressed or not.
