CMNS 260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Null Hypothesis, Concurrent Validity, Content Validity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 260
• Professor: Christopher Gibbs

Document Summary

Choose topic: treatment of time, cross-sectional (one point in time, longitudinal (more than one point in time, panel study. Exactly the same people, at least twice: cohort analysis. Same category of people or things (but not exactly same individuals) who/which shared an experience at at least two times. Graduating classes, video games invented in the same year: time-series. Same type of info. , not exactly same people, multiple time periods, e. g. same place: case studies may be longitudinal or cross-sectional, exploratory. Acquire familiarity with basic concerns and develop a picture. Background information, to stimulate new ways of thinking, to classify types, etc. Use of term varies in di erent paradigms (but many quantitative methodologists use it. Explanatory to describe the process of establishing causality) that is expressed in terms of causes and e ects. A causal explanation is a statement in social theory about why events occur associations in the empirical world. (p. 32)