ext_195624 ([identity profile] bobby1933.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liveonearth 2016-04-14 05:48 am (UTC)

Yes, it is a good explanation but might be difficult for someone with no background. I would define independent, control, and dependent variables and show how they are manipulated in a couple of example experiments.

In the social sciences, the classical experimental method is often impossible, illegal, immoral and not practical. Experimentally asking about the effects of observing gun violence would require that some randomly chosen subjects be exposed to such violence. This is not ethical and the effects may not be reversible. So how do people investigate the effects of observing gun violence? They do it very poorly, i think. because they do not think experimentally when developing whatever alternative to an experiment they will use.

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