CRCJ 3001 Lecture 4: Week 4

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Jack Vandenberg

Document Summary

The variable was operationalized of funniness was through a scale of 1-7, asking participants to rate their own (an opinion: self-report, unreliable, lots of biases. Lack of validity, finding something funny one day can differ from another day: observational measure can apply also, scale of measurement: ratio b/c there"s an absolute zero. Ex: mood as a confound, you must explain why it is and support it with materials from the course. Research info is based as all participants, must be clear and define which part of the population you"re using. Sample is selected from the population, then the results from the sample are generalized to the population. Types of population: target: ex: all sex offenders in canada, accessible: accessible group that the research can get access to (ontario sex offenders) If the population is all females, then the sample should all be females. Selection bias: procedures favoured the selection of some individuals over others.