SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Longitudinal Study, Spurious Relationship, Nomothetic
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Socb05 lecture 2 may 16 2013. Not really interested in finding out if a specific thing will happen, but the factors that will make it more likely for it to happen. Scientific explanations rest on the idea that events and conditions have causes. Leaves room for outliers, or things that go against the general pattern. Probabilistic in nature: x is not always followed by y, but the presence of x makes y more likely, a change in the independent variable, will lead to a change in the dependent variable. Independent: the cause, impacts other variables, the variable that is depended on, x-value. Dependent: the effect/ explained variable, being impacted upon, depends on another variable, y-value. Attributes: describe the intensity, magnitude, and nature of the variable: the values that a variable takes, how it is measures. A variable must have at least two attributes.
