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Soc 001 1st Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I Clickers II Distributions III Chapter 6 Reading Assignment Notes Outline of Current Lecture IV Reading a Table V Clickers VI Theory VII Hypothesis VIII Deductive research IX Inductive research Current Lecture Table 1 Ever bought weed by gender Soc 1 Section 2 February 2015 Gender Male Female Total 35 37 72 47 3 26 1 33 3 39 105 144 52 7 73 9 66 7 74 142 216 100 0 100 0 100 0 Have you ever bought marijuana Yes No Total Rules for reading a table o With independent in column Read percentages across columns These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Compare percent within each attribute of the dependent variable Clicker Question 1 In this table 47 3 is the o Percent of makes who have bought marijuana Clicker Question 2 In this table which is the most common response o No I have not bought marijuana Clicker Question 3 Which number indicates No is the most common response o 66 7 Clicker Question 4 My hypothesis is males are more likely to buy weed from a dealer than are females Based on this table is this hypothesis confirmed or rejected o Confirmed Clicker Question 5 Which numbers did you compare in order to test the hypothesis o 47 3 and 26 1 Theory an explanation o Ex Explain Crime What causes it We could say drug use Here crime would just be a concept Not testable able to make a hypothesis because it is a concept not a variable Hypothesis testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables Must operationalize Drug use is operationalized as rate of arrest for narcotics dealing Crime can be operationalized as murder rate Hypothesis Test theory The higher the rate of arrests for narcotics dealing the higher the murder rate Deductive research what we ve just done o Start with the theory o Then deduce expectations to test with a hypothesis Inductive research o Start with a pattern in data o Explanation of this pattern


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