SOCECOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Laird, Public Health
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Pay attention to these ideas with how we discuss research circle, biases, and validity today. Takes integrity ti pull together all thought,ideas, and limitations. We have to be very upfront and forward with why we might be making mistakes. Understand the role of challenges and biases. We want to identify the cause of it to prevent it from spreading. Basic idea: how is it helpful to work on this. Importance: how will this benefit non specialists and or society at large. Relevance: how will this benefit the community focused on these issues. Public health specialist are workign with epidemiologists to understand how local perceptions of outsiders are affecting an intervention to stop the spread of a poorly understood infectious dz in africa. When we set out to add to the list of theoretical premises. Induction: start with data to build more theory. Start w/ list of theoretical premises that data is used to test.
