SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependent And Independent Variables, Associate Degree, Aziz Ansari
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Hypothesis: women earn more than men or men earn more than women. Dependent variables versus independent variables: what race/gender earns more. Posiive versus negaive relaionships: posiive = things move in same direcion. Earnings and age = higher age means higher earnings: negaive = things move in opposite direcion. Operaion deiniions: educaion operaionalized: high school graduate, some college, associates degree, bachelors, how many categories. The point is to present data clearly not always easy to interpret though. Steps to unpack: title, carefully, source, notes, footnotes, trends: horizontal and verical. Table vs. igure look at page 69: table more detail/precision. Dv is earnings: figure easier to see paterns, trends. Modern romance aziz ansari neflix comedian.
