Heuristics, heuristics, heuristics! That's the word to know from Chapter 2. This word speaks even greater to the teens who they they know it all-- yeah, I'm guilty. I like to think I know what's best, in any given scenario. I absolutely would have said Reno, NV was northwest of San Diego, however though my geography skills would have failed, I'm pretty sure I would have caught myself at the murder rate for Michigan and Detroit...even though, that would prove the Hindsight Bias theorem, so I guess there's no way to really tell but it sure is easy for me to say that I would have known the answer to that question after the fact. Oh, Lillenfeld, you're sucha smarty pants.
I want to know the difference between external and internal validity within Naturalistic Obersation, because I have always believed that observation within a society proves most valuable, or in other words,the emic approach. Jane Goodall has to know the internal validity of chimps, even though i have no idea what that could possibly be, she's got to know it, she's observed them for how long? decades?
What's great about the rest of this chapter is that I learned EVERYTHING from my Stats class. Research and survey gliches, distorted polls and such--their evil intentions. I really wish there was something cooler you could say to describe the "Halo Effect" because it is so true and should be defined better than to say something cheezy like Halo Effect, come on! Correlations and all that gib jab was neat, but the addition of the Correlation vs Causation caught my eye because not all things are related. That ice cream/crime rate was a great example of a C factor.
The reason I don't take medicine is because I think every pill i would take will be a placebo and that, "Yes, it's all in my head. Why bother with meds?" Also the Nocebo, which i've never heard of but was easy to comprehend, reminds me of being scared during a scary movie, or even how I jump at every little thing that occurs.
The whole section on morals and ethic guidelines grossed me out. I skipped over the "Tuskegee/Spinal Tap" because i just cant look at that picture. But i think we live in a better world because of all the things that we can't do. But what i don't understand is the difference between researchers' deceitfulness and demand characteristics. If its not ok to be deceitfulful but ok to mask experiments, than who is right and who is wrong? I completely understand if the experiment is harmless but something surgical will definitely raise some eyebrows. All I have to say is thank goodness for cute little animals instead.
Mean, median, mode. Yeah i know what it is, i'm a college student, whaddup. Also, the mean can be skewed by outliers which can affect results and assumptions taken which is why the mode and median sometimes offer better data. See, i know what i'm talking about, no sense in reading things I already know right, Lillenfeld? Thanks for dishin out the difficult research procedure questions at the end. I thought i was doing pretty well till the end.
Golly, short chapter. Gonna hop onto C3 manana. Exam One, here we come!
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