Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confidence Interval, Operationalization, Standard Deviation
3 Oct 2018
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In everyday life, our biases easily influence our observations. Biases often lead us to draw incorrect conclusions about what we see. Ten common errors are regularly found in unscientific thinking. Types of unscientific thinking: tradition, appealing to a traditional way of doing something based on a positive response in the past, ex. Your grandparents tell you to have chicken noodle soup to get over an illness: authority, appealing to an authority figure presenting the fact makes it true, ex. Dr. phil said it on tv: ex. Michael shermer: why people believe weird things (video) Marijuana rod is an example of illogical reasoning. Galileo did not have a good image of saturn so he thought it was three planets this is an example of premature closure of inquiry. Seeing faces in objects is casual observation. Two primary approaches" to conducting sociological research. The four main methods in sociological research: Analysis of existing documents and official statistics.
