ANTHRO 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethogram, Scatter Plot, Data Analysis
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A methods and statistics primer for human behavior ecology. 4time allocation: behavior ecologists like to focus on what is considered naturally occurring processes, they try not to ask, they would rather observe, in biological way they tend to ask more. 5 time allocation: put all data into ethogram. 11: recall bias, sometimes questions about a child who has died. 13 other types: anthropometrics, biomarkers, dna, movement. Participant observation: real bread and butter of cultural anthro, helps better understand how they act or how they really are, we study h/g b/c it is believed they are the closest to how we used to live. Record that help with information: like births or deaths. If cramming for the exam start with the abstract: will help give an understanding of work. Ideally what we see: this is what we tested this is what resulted this is what we think, you need more than a correlated to infer causation.
