COMM 2002 Lecture Notes - Null Hypothesis, Alternative Hypothesis, Social Capital

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2002
• Professor: Heather Pyman

Document Summary

The stages of quantitative research: theory/research question, research design survey, devise measures of concepts state hypothesis h1, select site and sample, collect data, code and analyse data, write up. Literature reviews: what is a review of the literature? (determine strengths and weaknesses of the research, identify problem and validity, purpose. (ex: social capital the idea that economic capital of a country, measure the health of communities based on social capital) Operationalizing concepts: produced by the operational definition of a concept, common sense understanding of the form a concept might take, concept may have different dimensions, single indicator measures, multiple-indicator measures, battery of questions. Hypotheses and variables: hypothesis conjectural statement of a relationship between 2 or more variables, variable an indicator or measure that has more than one value, behavioural, attitudanal, basic features. (start with independent variable: testable hypothesis > h1, null hypothesis > h0, alternative hypothesis > h2.