POL S 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sea Monster, Spurious Relationship

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Correlation: a relationship in variables such that a change in one is a change in others. Causation: a relationship in variables such that a change in one is directly responsible for causing the change in the other. Spurious relationship: relationship between two or more various that are independent but are often mistaken for being a direct relationship. Illogical, missing a key piece of information. The balance of freedom vs. structure/ liberty vs. order. We don"t want to give the government too much power over people. Thomas hobbes *they are why america looks like what it does today. Thomas hobbes wrote the leviathan sea monster, description of the government. Life in the state of nature is bad--daily struggle. Proposed that we give up all our power to the state so that it could use that power to protect us. (total surrender of freedom, once you"re in, you"re in it forever)