PSYCH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scatter Plot, Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
9 Apr 2018
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Practice identifying claims part 2: when moms criticize, dads back off baby care, variables, criticism, baby care, claim, association, about 7% of u. s. adults have social anxiety disorder, variables. Smiling may lower your heart rate: variables. Texting and im-ing doesn"t affect spelling: variables, texting and im-ing. Facebook users get worse grades in college: variables. Funny professors get better student evaluations: variables. Association claims: types of associations: draw a scatterplot for each of the following claims, omg! Zero association: facebook users get worse grades in college, negative association, funny professors get better student evaluations, positive association. Notes: media often misreports associations as causal claims, uncertainty in language (may, certainty is unrelated to the type of claim, causal claims as if-then statements. Validity: validity refers to appropriateness of a claim, valid claims are reasonable, accurate, justifiable, reliability (consistency) = separate, we consider the validity of claims & variables (not entire studies)
