PSC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Design Of Experiments, Dependent And Independent Variables, Ethnography
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Become a better, more sophisticated consumer of research. Interpret and evaluate research claims in media or by people you know. They give statistics and it suddenly becomes more believable. Our most effective lifting treatment ever is formulated to fortify damaged tissue with new collagen. In just 3 days, see tighter, firmer, more lifted skin. Gay couples are bad for adopted children? (but if you look at the research, they only include people who support their hypothesis) Get started: come up with an idea. Get specific: refine the idea into a research question. Previous theory & research (where we get a lot of our research ideas) So people think of hypothesis off of their own personal experience. A woman was stabbed to death but 30 people watched but no one called the cops, so people wondered why people do that and that"s how we learned about the bystander effect: why do people do that? .
