SOC200H1 Chapter Notes -Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Empirical Relationship
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People with more education are seen as more skilled by potential employers and get high status jobs that pay more money. People with more education have more and better employment options and are able to negotiate better salaries. Working fewer hours for pay causes better grades. Living in a city cause better health. A proposed mechanism is a theory of how x leads to y. Credentialism: people with more education have more credentials than people with less education. Testing a hypothesis about a mechanism: education is correlated with credentials(people with more education have more credentials) Not only are variables affect by things, but the relationships between variables. When the answer to what is the effect of x on y? is it depends this is an can affected by things. interaction effect. relationship. Testing for interaction: control for the variable you think might affect the. No theory or hypothesis holds, even probabilistically, everywhere, at all times, for.
