Statistics Definitions

events that we describe with phrases such as 'I saw it with my own eyes' or 'hands on'

Those based on first-hand experiences of the world

A usual or expected practise

Involves adhereing to a system of reasoning (usually standard logic)

A faith that rationality is the best guide to decision making

A doctrine that ascribes superior truth-status to things that have been directly observed or manipulated over things that cannot be observed or manipulated

some kind of systematic descriptive area

• The qualitative version of distortion
• Mistaking one thing for something else

Information that is absent or uncertain

how the researcher is to describe the object of their investigations

Concerns research questions and hypotheses

Refers to the design of the study and whether it will serve our purposes

The overall method to be used in the study

Whether the researcher can interpret the outcomes of the study correctly

Whether the study's results can be generalised to another population

Deal primarily with topical and investigative uncertainties

Focus mainly on investigative uncertainty

The prinipcal objects are reasons, causes and interpretations. Concentrate on statistical and intepretive uncertainties