CMN2101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Empirical research: referring to that which is available to our senses, not speculative or philosophical, in terms of evidence based knowledge, measurement, qualitative or quantitive. Statistics (inferential statistics): research is designed to enable inferences (which are statistically sound) and draw conclusions. Probability: inferential statistics allow us to asses probability how likely is it that . Draw data off a small sample and apply inferences to a large population. Inferential statistic are grounded in causation: concepts are a table that we simply give to a phenomenon. Academic measurement is just an idea, it"s a construct: insights: creatively solving a problem, epistemology: simply a branch of philosophy that is concerned with knowledge. Research process: inductive: where we move from the general and we go towards the speci c. Very vague observations or patterns to the speci c and a hypothesis: deductive. Start with speci c and move to vague. Start with a hypothesis and move towards patterns and large observation.
