CMST 354 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Complete Control, Cohort Study, Meta-Analysis
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How do we know anything: experimenting, authority, research, observing, experience. Wants to know what each person thinks. Goal is for the average of the group. Basic research- research to just find the answer. Applied research- paid research, a purpose to the research. Is important to know who paid for the research so we know the bias: control- take everyone out of their natural setting and put them into, systematic- doing the study the same way every single time. Doing: authority- data we collect is more important than the person who, self correcting- replication, to make sure that the finding are what. Designed to test the theory and to see if theory is true. All theories need to be falsifiable. a place where no external factors will affect them. You want to have complete control. the same procedure every single time. they say they are. We do this through the method of a research article. collects it.
