[SOAN 2120] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 48 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Social researchers study the impact of the environment on humans. Conflict between competing groups (wealth, resources and power) Everyone has same opportunity to excel (based on markets) Capitalism: most powerful and darkest force on planet. Very controlled experiment (modelled after procedures used in the natural sciences) More than 1 response option that people answer. Allows us to visualize the relationship between variables. Scatterplots play an important role when exploring the relationship between two quantitative variables. They allow us to identify the problem cases, the form of the relationship ad have a preliminary estimate of the strength of the relationship. Only when the relationship is linear does it make sense to use the correlation coefficient. The correlation coefficient is a good summary of the measure of the strength and the direction of a linear relationship. Ranges from -1 (perfect negative) to 1 (perfect positive) Does not tell us the slope of the line.
