of secular natural history. It replaced the Christian view of causality through providence‚ and it asserted an absolute physicochemical and geological continuity. Though often confused with uniformity and uniformitarianism due to secular obfuscation‚ actualism‚ at root‚ is a method of geology that limits historical processes and events to observed present-day causes. Actualism fails as an absolute explanation of historical causality: it cannot be precisely defined‚ it surreptitiously assumes
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Why History Matters: Associations and Causal Judgment in Hume and Cognitive Science Mark Collier University of Minnesota‚ Morris Abstract: It is commonly thought that Hume endorses the claim that causal cognition can be fully explained in terms of nothing but custom and habit. Associative learning does‚ of course‚ play a major role in the cognitive psychology of the Treatise. But Hume recognizes that associations cannot provide a complete account of causal thought. If human beings lacked
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Experimental research is a systematic and scientific approach to research in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables‚ and controls and measures any change in other variables. Experimental Research is often used where: 1. There is time priority in a causal relationship (cause precedes effect) 2. There is consistency in a causal relationship (a cause will always lead to the same effect) 3. The magnitude of the correlation is great. Aims of Experimental Research Experiments are conducted
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Propaganda: How Not To Be Bamboozled By Donna Woolfolk Cross Propaganda. If an opinion poll were taken tomorrow‚ we can be sure that nearly everyone would be against it because it sounds so bad. When we say‚ “Oh‚ that’s just propaganda‚” it means‚ to most people‚ “That’s a pack of lies.” But really‚ propaganda is simply a means of persuasion and so it can be put to work for good causes as well as bad—to persuade people to give to charity‚ for example‚ or to love their neighbors‚ or to stop polluting
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Root Cause Analysis: A Framework for Tool Selection A. MARK DOGGETT‚ HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY © 2005‚ ASQ This article provides a framework for analyzing the performance of three popular root cause analysis tools: the cause-and-effect diagram‚ the interrelationship diagram‚ and the current reality tree. The literature confirmed that these tools have the capacity to find root causes with varying degrees of accuracy and quality. The literature‚ however‚ lacks a means for selecting the appropriate
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Glossary of Research Terms This glossary is intended to assist you in understanding commonly used terms and concepts when reading‚ interpreting‚ and evaluating scholarly research in the social sciences. Also included are general words and phrases defined within the context of how they apply to social sciences research. Acculturation -- refers to the process of adapting to another culture‚ particularly in reference to blending in with the majority e.g.‚ an immigrant adopting American customs]
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LSE Research Online Article (refereed) Sonia Livingstone Does TV advertising make children fat? : what the evidence tells us Originally published in Public policy research‚ 13 (1). pp. 54-61 © 2006 Blackwell Publishing. You may cite this version as: Livingstone‚ Sonia (2006). Does TV advertising make children fat : what the evidence tells us [online]. London: LSE Research Online. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/1026 Available in LSE Research Online: May 2007 LSE has developed LSE Research
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e eBook Collection 56 CHAPTER 5 Research design Research designs are master techniques . . . (Kornhauser and Lazarsfeld‚ 1955) The research design is the overall plan for relating the conceptual research problem to relevant and practicable empirical research. In other words‚ the research design provides a plan or a framework for data collection and its analysis. It reveals the type of research (e.g. exploratory‚ descriptive or causal) and the priorities of the researcher. The research methods
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Northeastern Political Science Association Power‚ Causation & Explanation Author(s): Terence Ball Reviewed work(s): Source: Polity‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2 (Winter‚ 1975)‚ pp. 189-214 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3234201 . Accessed: 17/09/2012 00:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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PART I WHAT IS RESEARCH DESIGN? 1 THE CONTEXT OF DESIGN Before examining types of research designs it is important to be clear about the role and purpose of research design. We need to understand what research design is and what it is not. We need to know where design ®ts into the whole research process from framing a question to ®nally analysing and reporting data. This is the purpose of this chapter. Description and explanation Social researchers ask two fundamental types of research
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