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One way social science
differs from our casual day to day inquiry is?
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Social science is a conscious activity
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What are four purposes of
research?
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Exploration, Description, Explanation, Application
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Inductive reasoning moves
you from
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specific to general
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The major distinction
between quantitative and qualitative data is the distinction between
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Numerical and non numerical
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When information is
gathered by researchers and there are no identifying characteristics allowing
the researchers to match up results to individual subjects, this illustrates:
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Anonymity
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All but which of the
following would be a unit of analysis?
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Social Causes
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Which of the following is
not a type of longitudinal study?
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Cross sectional Study
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Conceptualizing refers to
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Specifying the meaning of concepts and variables in the study
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The effects of violence in
children’s programming are a major research endeavor that requires counting the
number of violent acts in Saturday morning cartoons for an entire year. The
units of analysis being used for the project are
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Social Artifacts
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If X is your independent
variable and Y is your dependant variable, which of the following is correct?
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X is a sufficient cause of Y if Y always happens when X is present
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Age of an offender is an
example of which level of measurement?
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Ratio
(nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) the
order they go.
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A researcher
concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will, after repeated
measures, yield the same results is concerned with:
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Reliability
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Measuring religious
affiliations by asking respondents to indicate if they are Catholic, Jewish, or
muslim would be using the _______ level of measurement.
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Nominal
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The primary difference
between the interval and ratio level of variables is that:
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With ratio there is an absolute meaning of zero
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What two qualities
should every variable possess?
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Exhaustive and mutually exclusive
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