BISC 110 Lecture Notes - Rosenwald Fund, Tuskegee University, Belmont Report
29 May 2013
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Research project outline is due in the beginning of tutorial next week. (week of. Make sure your research study topic sticks to the guidelines and restrictions. Simple hypothesis: the effect of x and y. Complex hypothesis: the effect of x on y depends on z. Defining variables: qualitative vs. quantitative, discrete vs. Experimental: hypothetical vs. non-hypothetical, mediating vs. moderating. Ethics is really important in social sciences. Ethics is also an important aspect in research methods for many reasons, most notably: You will be working within a certain ethical guideline, which has certain limitations on what you can do to your participants and how you treat your participants. Based on the coalification of ethical principles, that came out of something known as the belmont report . The belmont report has had an enormous impact on the research done in social sciences and psychology.
