Weeks 4-7 Flashcards
population
Individual things that make up your data source
Sampling
The act of grouping things
Homogeneity
Similarity within population (which can cause racism, sexism, etc, and can confuse data with generality when done wrong)
Heterogeneity
Degree of diversity within population
Deductive Method
Theory first, then testing.
Premise + Premise = Conclusion (Homogeneity)
Inductive Method (Probability)
Theory+test=probability, not truth. (Heterogeneity)
Random Sample
Every sampling element (Unit)
listed only once e.g. library books
Sampling Errors
Systematic and/or random
qualitative
quality. By nature - think about sampling
quantitative
random, stats, unframed data collection
qualitative and quantitative are known as
representative sampling
What is stratified sampling?
proportional sampling system
a leading question is…
taking their mind to an specific issue
Ethnography
Naturalistic observation and Holistic understanding (deductive)
Frame analysis
what has meaning in a group. So see their point of view/frame