COM 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Binge Drinking, Stipulative Definition, Operational Definition
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It does not mean you have to check every box in order to be compassionate. Indicator: an observation that we choose to consider as a reflection of a variable we wish to study. Identify appropriate indicators and dimensions for : drinking. If several different indicators all represent the same concept, all of them will behave the same way the concept would behave if it were real and could be observed. In measuring religious affiliation, is it sufficient to know what religion one is, or is denomination important: levels of measurement, nominal: variables who attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutually exclusiveness. E. g. gender, religious affiliation, hair color, major all have limitations (a finite amount: ordinal: variables with attributes we can logically rank order. Socioeconomic status, level of conflict, prejudice, conservativeness, hardness. Interval: variables for which the actual distance between attributes has meaning.
