Research Design and Statistics in Applied Psychology

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Research Design and Statistics in Applied
Psychology

• Instructor Walter Zwirner
• TA tba

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Introductory lecture

• New Logic of Science
• 17th century Novuum Organum(1620)
• Bacon
• probability theory
• Pascal(1658)
• political arithmetic (applied
  statistics)
• Graunt(1660)

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Novuum Organum

• Aristotles Organum 4th Century BC - uses
  deductive reasoning example Euclids geometry.
• Definitions Axioms Postulates deductive
  conclusion using syllogism.
• Bacons Novuum Organum introduces experience
  and necessity for induction before deduction.
• Both search for truth old science logic.

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Philosophy - Statistics

• Experience observation/sampling
• Reduction descriptive statistics
• Induction exploratory statistics
• Deduction inferential statisitcs