CHAPTER 1: SETTING THE STAGE: WHY LEARNING THIS …



DISCUSSION GROUP PROBLEMSCHAPTER 1: SETTING THE STAGE: WHY LEARNING THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT!1. If we are interested in the percentage of crime victims who did not report their victimization to the police, we are doing evaluation research. True or False?2. If we are interested in the reasons why crime victims do not report their victimization to the police, we are doing explanatory research. True or False?3. A logically interrelated set of propositions about empirical reality is referred to as a ______.4. A tentative statement about reality involving the relationship between two or more phenomena is a ______. 5. The statement, “States that have a ‘concealed carry’ gun have higher rates of gun-related injuries and deaths,” is an example of a ______. 6. If I wanted to study the effect of drug courts on recidivism, I would be doing evaluation research. True or False?7. The ______ of a study is the extent to which it can be used to inform us about persons, places, or events that were not studied.8. If I was interested in the drinking behavior of college undergraduates at my university and I hung outside at bars on Saturday night asking students to fill out my questionnaire about their drinking behavior, my study might have low ______.9. Assuming that what I find out in my sample also holds true in the population is called making an ______ or a ______.10. Let’s say I was interested in the relationship between verbal IQ scores and delinquency among youth in my state between the ages of 12 and 18. I randomly selected 10 high schools from my state and collected information about the verbal IQ of the 500 youth in those schools. Those 500 youths from whom I collected information would be my ______ and the much larger group of all 12- to 18-year-old youth in the state would be my ______.11. The group that I want to make an inference or generalization about is called my sample. True or False? 12. The two major categories of sampling techniques are ______ and ______ samples.13. What is the primary question of interest in sample generalizability?14. What is the distinguishing feature of probability sampling?15. If I have a sample statistic and I am using it to estimate an unknown population parameter, I am interested in ______ statistics.16. I want to know the average police officer salary among my city police officers. I take a sample of 50 officers from the population of 200 officers. The mean salary I calculate from my sample is called my ______ ______ while the mean of the 200 officers is the ______ ______. ................
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