CH. 1 Why the Social Researcher Uses Statistics? The Nature of Social Research • Social scientists attempt to explain and predict human behavior – Social scientists uses scientific methods to study the social world: human behaviors & interactions – Variables: characteristics that differ or vary from one individual to another or from one point in time to another • Ex. Age‚ social class‚ and attitude or unemployment‚ crime rate and population – Constants: characteristics that do not vary •
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Collin Doyle Mrs. Perino Math 48A.01 11 January 2013 Homework 1.2: P. 19-21 #’s 23-24‚ 66-67‚ 70‚ 73‚ 74a-b‚ 76 23) Problem: Explain how to determine whether a parenthesis or a square bracket is used when graphing an inequality on a number line. Solution: a. Parenthesis: indicate a range of values‚ open interval‚ I think of parenthesis as being the parent that is more open to given their child toys and bending the rules. b. Brackets: has limits between two numbers‚ closed interval
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1. What do you consider to be "inedible"? According to the textbook‚ the word inedible is poisonous or are not eaten because of strong belief or taboos. Food or things that I consider to be inedible would be poisonous animals‚ fungus‚ or an animal that died from a disease. 2. What do you consider to be "edible by animals‚ but not by me"? Animals love to eat any living things as long as they are below their food chain. Natural selection plays a very big part because every animal craves the excitement
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Data Types and Why We Care | Written Assignment | | | | Kayla | 1/30/2013 | | Kayla Coleman Wednesday‚ January 30‚ 2013 Principles of Testing and Measurements Data Types and Why We Care There are a million different types of data in the world. Some types we have learned through years of education and others have yet to be discovered. One question about data types that is asked frequently is “Why do we care?” Though there is no text book answer; I believe we care because
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Women’s Health in Ho Chi Minh City Project (1/11/2004 – 30/9/2006) Implemented by Ho Chi Minh City AIDS Committee with technical and financial support from Family Health International (FHI) Assessment of Female Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City Submitted to Family Health International‚ Hanoi by Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang Hang Thi Xuan Lan April 2005 Acknowledgements This assessment was conducted with invaluable support from the collaborators of Quality of Life Promotion (Life)
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1 Statistics & Data I Applications in Business and Economics I Descriptive Statistics I Inferential Statistics Statistics Data overload! I need help! Slide 1 Applications in Business and Economics I I Accounting Public accounting firms use statistical sampling procedures when conducting audits for their clients. Economics Economists use statistical information in making forecasts about the future of the economy or some aspect of it. Statistics Slide
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Health is Wealth” is very much true. One must try hard to remain healthy ‚if we are healthy ‚we can easily fight with other problems of life. people do many different things to remain healthy .some go for healthy diet‚ other recommended exercise‚ and rest thinks health awareness is important ‚after all “Prevention is better than cure.” A healthy diet is very necessary to remain healthy. People must take care of their diet. Everybody should read the ingredients before buying
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QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING SPSS AN INTRODUCTION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Pete Greasley Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS An Introduction for Health & Social Science Pete Greasley Open University Press McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire England SL6 2QL email: enquiries@openup.co.uk world wide web: www.openup.co.uk and Two Penn Plaza‚ New York‚ NY 10121-2289‚ USA First published
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2.2.3 Data Collection Another crucial stage that cannot be ignored is deciding on the type and nature of data that is to be used in the research. Ideally‚ there are three types of data that a researcher can collect using primary research. First‚ the data can be quantitative in nature. This refers to data that is capable of been converted into a numerical value (Kothari 2004). One of the benefits of quantitative data is that its measurement does not require critical reviews‚ making it easy to collect
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Why Do Speakers Use Rhetoric? The art of rhetoric has many different purposes that it serves depending on how the speaker presents their intended message. However‚ the purpose of rhetoric that is proven to be most effective in multiple similar speeches or pieces of writing is to support their claim or position on a topical subject. This use of rhetoric is intentional since the speaker knows that the overall effect would be to prove their position to be justified. Rhetoric shown through images
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