SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dependent And Independent Variables, National Crime Victimization Survey, American Community Survey
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Class announcements: all essays will not be submitted in revel, will be submitted in blackboard via safe assign. Tom is conducting research on students self-medicating on college campuses. He starts by using a theory, then forming a hypothesis, empirically observing students and then analyzing the data. His research approach can be described as: deductive. The number of hours you spend studying affects your grades. What is the independent variable: hours spent studying. Higher levels of education minimizes the likelihood of having a lower paying job. What is the dependent variable: lower paying job. What is the dependent variable: rate of income. Research model: choose a topic, select a problem, read literature, collecting data. Validity the extent to which a variable measures what it is supposed to. Measure religion by attendance in church; numbers on a weight scale that starts at 0. Reliability likelihood of obtaining consistent results using the same measure.
