CMN 3102 Midterm: CMN3102 Quantitative Methods Midterm

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3102
• Professor: Elizabeth Dubois

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Cmn3102 quantitative methods midterm: epistemology study of knowledge, paradigms of knowing discovery, interpretive, and critical, discovery: assuming that there is a truth in the world and your experiment is trying to find it. The truth is discoverable. (formal experiments, surveys, hard science) Interpretive (social scientific): there are many truths in the world, how we find them depends on how we interpret this information: ascertain knowledge through, theories: drive research questions and data collection, facts: analyze them. Justification: explain their meaning and justify the explanation: scientific method, make observations -> think of interesting questions -> formulate hypotheses -> Develop testable predictions -> gather data to test predictions -> refine, alter, expand, or reje(cid:272)t hypotheses (cid:894)loops (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to (cid:862)de(cid:448)elop testa(cid:271)le predi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s(cid:863)(cid:895) -> develop general theories: theory: idea of how something does/should work. Comparison. (rankings in a race: continuous variables deal with numbers and math; we can perform calculations on them. Determine population (who do you want to target?: 2.