SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Collectively Exhaustive Events, Confirmation Bias
Week 4- measurement
Midterm
• 20 m/c
• definitions
o answer 2 of 5
o about 3 sentences
• 2 short answers
o ethics
o research design
• deception
o not ethical but may be necessary if there are more benefits
• paradigm
o feminist paradigm
o paradigm helps shape a theory, provides the broad picture
• confirmation bias
o tendency to interpret results that confirm your bias
o like if you thik Asias are etter at ath, you’re goig to look for that
• key ethical considerations
o voluntary participation
o no harm to participants
o disclosures, anonymity and confidentiality
o deception
o truthfulness
• 3 logics of causation
o temporal order
o correlation
o non-spurious
Reliability
• whether a particular measurement yields the same results when applied repeatedly to
the same object/person
• reliability does not ensure accuracy or truth
• surveys are very reliable
• improving reliability
o 1. Test-retest ethod…
o 2. Split-half ethod…
o 3. Use estalished easures…
o 4. Reliability of research workers
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