SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cash Register, Unintended Consequences, Anomie
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3 middle class, 3 clearly white families, all fairly young students. Random sample to represent population; measure and quantify variables. Hadron collider experiments represent about 150 million sensors delivering data 40 million times per second. In 4 hour on black friday 2012, walmart had 10 million cash register transactions, almost 5000 items per second. Basic argument for prohibition in us; will lower crime rates. Data shows crime rate going up during prohibition. Take on two or more values that are connected to each other. 1948 is not a variable; comparing 1948 and 1958 are variables. Male vs female crime rate (independent: gender vs dependent: crime) Independent variable can be influenced by different variables but dependent variable does not affect it. Grade in school and getting into university (independent: grade in school vs dependent: getting into uni) 500 2000
