SOCI 311- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Statistic is a branch of sociology that focused on organizing, presenting and analyzing data from taking a bunch of numbers. Society likes to answer inequality using comparison; analyze how different aspects of the social world. Inferential vs descriptive: if research is about a population but is taken from a sample then it is a inferential statistics, if research is able to study everyone in a population then it is descriptive statistics. Hypotheses: predicts about the relationship between the dependent and the independent variable relate. Discrete variables: a variable that cannot subdivide, such as 5. 5 of half a child (has to be a whole number) Continuous variables: variable that is continuously if it can subdivide infinitely, example: olympics score is settled by minutes to seconds and to milliseconds making it a continuous variable. Hierarchy of science: from the top to the bottom: (comte ranking because this is how he thinks how much sociology relates to the rest of the sciences)
