SPEA-J - Public And Environmental Affairs SPEA-J 202 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Operationalization, Deductive Reasoning, Dependent And Independent Variables
25 Aug 2016
School
Professor
Document Summary
Agreement & experiential realities are things that we learn through experience and authority figures. They cause us to overlook major details, create unfair or incorrect generalizations, create biases, etc. Variables are a logical grouping of attributes; they"re abstract concepts like offenders race. Conceptualization: forming a concept or idea of something. Taking a broad idea and narrowing it down to a specific thing. Independent variables are stand-alone variables; they"re the predictor variable that cause something. Using an observation to find patterns and generate a hypothesis. Confidentiality: can keep track of subjects for later observations & follow ups but risk accidental id. Research validity is the ways to go about justifying the validity of a relationship b/w variables. Statistical: refers to the ability to confidently say the x & y are correlated. Threats = sample being too small, or the effect of x on y is random. Internal: shows that x (& not another variable) causes y.
