SOCI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hawthorne Effect, Catholic Church, Dependent And Independent Variables
4 Oct 2016
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Once lights were turned up productivity seemed to increase. They hypothesized that when lights go up, productivity increases as well. However, once they turned lights down productivity of workers increased even more. Everyone has their own opinions, can be bias b. ii. Could disapprove of people being studied, let personal emotions cloud their judgment. What would we look at to help predict whether a young person will become a delinquent: variables: Variables and attributes (values: attributes= different positions variables can take varying from person to person. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, etc. (no range) What is the minimum number of attributes a variable can have: two, if it can"t vary then it can"t be a variable. What is the max: infinite amount. Ex: consider the following set of attributes for the variable: religious affiliation. Jewish: attributes must be exhaustive, must exhaust all possibilities, must have attributes for each one, but listing all religions isn"t practical c. i.
