GEOL 1001 Lecture : GEOL 1001 Notes 8/29(5)
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Concept: an abstract system of meaning that enables us to perceive a phenomenon in a certain way. Hypothesis- an educated guess that you make about something. ex. Under les miles, lsu will win 10 games this year. You can test if it is true or not. Variable- number of wins would be a variable, countable. How many games lsu will win this year is countable: definition. any concept with two or more values which vary from one case to another. *wife abuse and husband"s arrest: positive and negative relationships. Someone said that it is easy to stop wife abuse, all you have to do is arrest the husband. Sociologist got a lot of money for this particular idea. Arrested at random when they got calls within a 6 month period. Didn"t change behavior 100%, but they didn"t expect that. Tried this in different places and in some places arresting them made it worse.
