SYG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Intravenous Therapy, Milgram Experiment
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Definition objectivity don"t let personal biases affect your personal work . Steps in research process scientific method [read it!] Causation: events occur in predictable ways; one leads to another. *i hypothesize that studying more hours per week leads me to get higher grades. Avoid spurious correlation (relationship between 2 variables is actually produced by 3rd variable) Note time order (make sure that i. v. happens before d. v. ) Multiple causation (an event occurs as the result of several factors acting in combination; several i. v. "s d. v. ) Survey (most socio. research; quantitative research large, use stats to analyze data) *participant observation (become a member of the group you"re. Sample (limited # of cases drawn from the population to be studied) Open-ended vs fixed-choice questions studying, either with or w/o informing the group that you"re a researcher) -more extensive method = better data, but more difficult (ethically or otherwise), smaller sample size. -simpler research = smaller timeframe, but skimpier data.
