PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Downtown Eastside, Insite, Falsifiability
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Individual variability: pattern informs us of our hypotheses, we cannot account for every individual case. E. g. medicine: side effects -- variability in severity, types, and whether or not they hit someone. Important to take the weight of the evidence (one study never tells you the whole story; any one study has weaknesses in it) One study with effect <<<<< three studies without effect. Never able to account for all errors or random chance events given in a study. Everyone, including her 82 year old grandma, knows where drugs are. Assumption/association that the wrong premise is that insite provides drugs. Assumes he can"t find drugs anywhere else in the country. Relying on person"s experience to inform you of your opinions and attitudes (sex worker) Unlikely to bring drugs from the states, so it has to be vancouver/insite. High percent of drug users in downtown eastside.
