CC233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Halitosis, Design Issues, Double Negative
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Practice questions: when social researchers use home ownership as a measure of someone"s social-economic status. This is an example of construct validity- midterm: in quantitative research, operationalization occurs before abstract concepts are defined. His measurement of someone"s age is reliable but not valid. Cause (iv): an explanation of a characteristic, attitude, behaviour, or event. Causal effect (dv): change in one variable leads to change in another variable (other things must be equal) the outcome// change, we don"t want other factors to interfere. Want to isolate the variables from other variables through experiment. Between gender and employment status in perfect association. While in moderate association males still have the advantage to be employed: gender is an indicator of one"s employment status, gender determines your employment status, time order. No association it doesn"t matter your gender, you all have an equal chance: gender is the only cause of employment status. Only testing one variable in the experiment.
