SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Internal Validity, Homo Economicus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: ivan Katchanovski

Document Summary

A framework for the collection and analysis of data. Key elements: topic/idea, research question/hypothesis, literature review, search method, data, and research ethics. Real life, empirical reality, theory, literature research question and/or research hypothesis. Can be combined but need to be related. Non academic sources locating relevant databases, periodicals, books. What is already known about the topic. * literature review should be critical and descriptive. When choosing a research design one has to consider a number of criteria for evaluating social research, this includes: reliability. The results remain the same each time a particular measurement technique is used on the same subject (assuming that what is being measured has not changed) The results are not influenced by the search, the location, the timing: replicability. The results remain the same when others repeat all or part of a study. The procedures used to conduct the search are sound: validity: there is integrity to the conclusions, measurement validity.