SOCI 328- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
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Extremely useful in providing evidence for(or against) statements such as these: women tend to report more illnesses than men do, working-class people are more likely than upper-class people to have high blood pressure. Can be useful for supporting (or discrediting) epxlanations for the aforementioned statements: compared to men, women tend to report more illnesses because they pay more attention to bodily signs and symptoms. Identify a sample of people within which to investigate the veracity of the statement. Measure class" and blood pressure" for each person in the sample. Apply statistical techniques to the collected data: does it vary sufficiently for what you do. Attempt to explain the relationship between income and blood pressure. Cases: things that have certain characteristics or properties . The cases we will look at in this course come from a set of individual people (gss dataset) and from set of countries(country dataset)
