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| Spiritual knowledge, actual truth |
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| secular knowledge; pure truth poorly interpreted, with limited knowledge |
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truth acquired/learned through personal experiences.
--the problem with attaining truth this way is bias; our knowledge is distorted because it is based on pre-existing preferences |
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| How we conceptualize something that cannot be measured directly (love, happiness, conflict). |
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| something that varies and is measurable |
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| what we want to know about |
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| what predicts our dependent variable |
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| how two or more variables interact |
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| research focused around numbers and statistics |
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| research focused around understanding meaning (case studies, interviews, etc.) |
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| major sources of bias and their definitions |
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sample bias: the people and families we learn from will limit our findings in some way; results won't be accurate for families outside the sample, especially if our bias interferes with the research question
researcher bias: the individuals who do the studying are changing the results (intentionally or unintentionally); the researcher's motivations influence the research itself
overgeneralization: we make assumptions about a large group that are not necessarily true based on our observations about a small group |
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| the small group we study to make inferences about a population (inferential statistics=drawing conclusions based on analyzing a sample) |
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| to determine one thing causes another |
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| to co-relate two things together |
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| relationships that look real mathematically but are not in the real world. ex: ice cream sales and crime show statistical significance but really summer is the lurking variable |
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