SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dependent And Independent Variables, Ecological Fallacy, Spurious Relationship
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Wrote a book itled wheeling and dealing when the got their phd, based on this story. Graduate students at university of san diego, california. They were looking out the window and noiced weird things happening at their neighbors suspicious acivity, shady. Confronted their neighbor dave and asked if him if they would share his work with them. Became good friends with dave and his wife, and got connected with ben who is the smuggler. Turns out this group of people ben and dave work with, are brining in one tone of marijuana and 10 kilos of cocaine. Intervening literature on deviance and crime, saying that people can act raional for irraional ends. Had to do drugs in order to be involved in research, while on drugs how accurate was their study. People cancelling on them unreliable group of people, no gatekeepers to smooth their path.
