CCT208H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Treatment And Control Groups, Longitudinal Study, Cohort Study
20 Apr 2017
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Numbers aren"t objective; good research considers context and works to reduce misunderstanding & misinterpretation. Political context - generally mean considering who has power & influence. What research gets funded & gets approved or rejected. Context is key to understanding and questioning numbers. Case study - focuses on particular event, situation or person; explore and describe. Experimental - treatment group & control group; both randomly selected groups. Field experiments - same as regular experiments except in a natural setting. Natural experiment - groups aren"t selected by the researchers. Drafted for war; mother of male children vs female children. Quasi-experimental - divide people into groups based on something that interests you and see if those groups are different from each other. Trend study - studying trends over time. Cohort study - study people who are the same age over time. Panel study - same people studied over time. Pros - control for all factors except one; helps understand causality.
