Lecture 1
Empirical research in social sciences
Theory oriented: to further scientific knowledge
Practice oriented: to improve the world’s, companies’, governments’ & ngo’s, well being/-
fare
Techniques for empirical research in social sciences
Established, agreed- upon ways/tools by which we aim to get reliable (replicable) and valid
(saying something about the thing you want to say something about) results
o Add (scientific) rigor (make it better)
o So that we ourselves will have confidence in the reliability and validity of our results
o So that others will have confidence in our results
o As other you should be eager and able to understand and critically appraise the steps
that were taken
Typical number of observation units:
???
Data collection
Experiment & Case study standardized
Survey unstandardized / adaptive
H0 =
2 / wortel 36 = 1/3 = SE
T = 0,,3 = 2.4
Critical value: 2.438
T < critical value: fail to reject.
Empirical research in social sciences
Theory oriented: to further scientific knowledge
Practice oriented: to improve the world’s, companies’, governments’ & ngo’s, well being/-
fare
Techniques for empirical research in social sciences
Established, agreed- upon ways/tools by which we aim to get reliable (replicable) and valid
(saying something about the thing you want to say something about) results
o Add (scientific) rigor (make it better)
o So that we ourselves will have confidence in the reliability and validity of our results
o So that others will have confidence in our results
o As other you should be eager and able to understand and critically appraise the steps
that were taken
Typical number of observation units:
???
Data collection
Experiment & Case study standardized
Survey unstandardized / adaptive
H0 =
2 / wortel 36 = 1/3 = SE
T = 0,,3 = 2.4
Critical value: 2.438
T < critical value: fail to reject.
