WMST 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Statistical Significance, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Conflict Tactics Scale
6 Sep 2016
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Making a persuasive causal argument must satisfy 3 criteria: establishing that the cause and the effect covary, showing that the cause precedes the effect. 3. ruling out all other reasonable explanations for why the cause and the effect would covary advantages of standardized measures. Closed-ended questions increase the likelihood that each person"s responses will be made using the same frame of reference, thereby reducing confusion about questions. Repeated use of measures allows for direct comparisons between studies disadvantages of standardized measures. Every measurement approach creates a pattern of selective visibility; taps some aspects of a phenomenon and hides others. Measures are constructed with particular historical and political contexts that shape what they measure and how. When researchers use their own measures, the selection favors the standpoint taken by researchers; this tends to be a fairly homogeneous and privileged group counting people. Most widely known data set: us census.
