CMNS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Theory, Time Series, Spring Cleaning
10 May 2016
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Teaching assistants: dung ha ( dungh@sfu. ca ) and milan singh ( milan_singh@sfu. ca ) Office hours : wednesday 12:30 1:30 k8665. Aims to be clear, precise, and direct when it comes to providing research. Along with being conscious of the steps to provide and collect data. Learn to read others people research and be literate. Research has the potential to inform and misinform . Even well done research isn"t always accurate. Knowledge of methods is vital to be critical about claims and research. Authority (parents, teachers, religious leaders, media gurus) While these are other forms of gathering information and gaining knowledge, our method aims to organize and strategically modify results based off data. You risk a lot of error when we use non-scholarly methods. Selective observation can lack diversity and perspectives: overgeneralization: evidence applied to too wide a range of conditions, premature closure: jumping to conclusions, halo effect: idea of being influenced by prestige.
