SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Baffin Island, Natural Experiment
6 Feb 2020
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Naturally occurring phenomena that approximate the properties of a controlled experime. Researchers take advantage of some event to test its effect on some particular variables s natural disasters, wars or disease outbreaks. Some naturally occurring circumstances or institutions divide people into groups that dupl treatment and control groups. Coldevin (1976) - able to take advantage of a unique opportunity to study impact of the introduction of tv into canadian inuit community. Evaluating effect of tv exposure to ses aspirations, desire for lifestyle change. In 1972, cbc initiating a four-hour-a-day frontier coverage package into frobisher bay community on lower baffin island. Coldevin found a control community, fort chimo in northern quebec, to which he could m comparisons. Fort chimo was a community without tv, and it was predominately inuit, like. Share many of characteristics of true experimental designs, but typically lack the element random assignment to treatment or control groups.
