REC 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nomothetic, Sampling Frame, Spurious Relationship
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Rec 359: developing a research question & identifying a study population. Exploration to learn more about a subject or phenomena that has yet to be explored by researchers. The purpose of exploration is to test the feasibility of a more extensive study. Also to develop new methods by collecting and analyzing data: 2. Description the what, where, when, how of the research. Ex: census they do every 10 years: 3. Nomothetic- an attempt to identify causal factor or universal laws : something specific happened that caused everyone to do a certain thing. Ex: van the economy crashed and now people live in vans. Idiographic- an attempt to exhaust all causes of condition, event, or phenomena; dealing with what makes something individual or unique: looking at all the different options of why everyone is doing a certain thing. Ex: van rachel lives in a van to hike whenever she wants but. Stan lives in a van because of student loans.
