PSC 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bias Blind Spot, Scientific Method, Social Cognition
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Not intuition, experience, doctrine, popular consensus, testimonials, focus groups, etc. Naive realism - people think they perceive the world objectively as it truly is. We see what we want to see. People not usually aware of own biases. Bias blind spot - you"re more biased than i am . Estimate # of deaths per year in us. Things more accessible in minds are seen as happening more often than. Primary empirical methods of psychology events less accessible in our minds. Absolute value of % signifies strength (ex: . 50 stronger than . 30) Sign (+ or -) signifies nature of relationship. Can study issues that can"t be experimentally manipulated (ex: living together before marriage & likelihood of divorce) Lack of insight into what causes what. Third variable (z) causes both x and y. Independent variable (iv) is manipulated - the cause . All other factors held constant except manipulated variable. Avoid confounds (i. e. variables that varies systematically w/ iv)
