01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fn Minimi, Confounding, Gonorrhea

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Sean Stevens

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What makes scientific thinking different than every day observation: objectivity rather than subjectivity, systematic observation and repeatable evidence, involves data, or mathematical formulas, once we find something, we run the same experiment again and start to get the same results, no matter who perform the experiment. Type of observational study that involves the analysis of data collected population, or a representative subset, at one specific point in. Conducting animal research be controversial guidelines for what kind of research is permissible ul to animals, don"t tell us much about human behavior withdraw when they are uncomfortable. Ethically questionable research: the tuskegee syphilis experiments ers, soldiers, and mental patients deliberately exposed to syphilis and gonorrhea to test effects of medication. Stand ard deviation: measure how tightly clustered a group of scores is around the mean. Outlier s are typically discarded when they are not within three standard deviations of the mean. ntial statistics.