Health Sciences 2801A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 5,6,7,8, Beck Depression Inventory, Medical Thermometer
28 Nov 2017
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Class 2 note numbers, measures, and words. Numbers: families of numbers, counting vs. measuring, numbers vs. numerals. Measures: construct, indicator, score, scoring method, range of convenience, issues of representativeness and relevance, schematic diagrams. Words: structure of a word, phonemic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, garden path effect, at an early age, children know that a number is something used to count. 1. 25), or begins to repeat a sequence of digits (ex. 1. 0909: irrational number, does not end or repeat sequences of digits (ex. Drivers license, course code, number on the back of sports jerseys) Measurement: we measure the word around us by using indicators to represent constructs, a construct is a conceptual continuum that describes our experiences of the world (ex. Sad: an indicator is a feature of the world used to represent a given construct (ex. Tears: a score is the outcome of a measurement process it is a number on a continuum obtained by applying a scoring scheme.
