CS235 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aziz Ansari, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
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Amber phillips, this is why we can"t have nice things (pgs. Hypothesis: a statement specifying the relationship between two or more variables. Abstracts: a summary of a journal article, appearing at the start of the article and reproduced in bibliographic indexes. Validity, reliability and conceptual logics of truth in research practice. Logic and levels of analysis: models, overall paradigm or framework for looking at reality, epistemology and ontology. Does a method look like it is going to measure what it is supposed to measure: the researcher thinks hard about whether the questions indicate the intended concept, example: height or weight are measures with high face validity. Quantitative methods of measuring the social, part i. Fran tonkiss, history of social statistics and the social survey (available on the mylearningspace site) Causal relationship: causality, a generative rather than accidental link between successive states of affairs, where a is seen to have brought about b.
