CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Criterion Validity, Big Data, Social Fact
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Midterm: no questions on philips book, more on midterm. We can never claim to know with absolute certainty the truth of any analysis that we might conduct about social and cultural phenomenon. We adhere to procedures to valid social science research in order to make certain truth claims. It shows that epistemology (how do we come to know what it is we know) and ontology (how do we come to know what it is we know) are connected. Entails a specific set of methodological facts. Epistemology of validity produces a valid known reality of ontology. The methods we use are the specific practices that connect of that of epistemology of that of ontology. In social fact model there are 4 kinds of validity (important for midterm: external, measurement, internal, reliability. Face validity: how well measures successfully indicate concepts to the population you are studying. Does a method look like it is going to measure what s it supposed to measure.
