January 4, 2015 Social Science
When you think of colors, what comes to mind when I say the color blue? How about red or yellow or black? Most people, would say: BLUE: sadnesRED: angerYELLOW: happy/cheeryBLACK: death Are these descriptions of colors really true? Or are…
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January 4, 2015 Medical Science
Rickets is an illness that occurs in children during the formative years of their bones and skeletal structure. Rickets occur when there is a lack of vitamin D, phosphorus, and calcium in the diet. Many children in developing countries are…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
There is rarely the opportunity to perform the classic and most rigorous form of experiment, or The True Experiment, because the first critical requirement is to randomize all selection of test subjects. Second, there must be randomization in all decisions…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
Social networking can be viewed in two senses: in the sense of interacting socially and undergoing socialization at sites throughout the Internet, or in interacting socially , and undergoing socialization in the real world. Many sociological constructs consider that human…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
Internet “flame wars” are sometimes the stuff of legend within the tens of thousands of forums that exist on line. Whether the war is a consequence of an individual posting a series of inflammatory and controversial posts, or whether the…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
It is becoming quite common to hear that “the girls are getting to be as bad as the boys!” But the case is not that simple. When gang activity and gang society is examined, girls are either regressing into roles…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
The most highly regarded and rigorous experimental design in sociological research is the controlled experiment, where artificial conditions are established, the highest standards of internal validity prove that there is no other explanation for the cause and effect relationship, and…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
The basic statistical methods are used to establish the soundness of a basic cause and effect hypothesis. There are tests for internal and external validity of data in supporting the hypothesis, whether a sample population is representative of a whole,…
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January 4, 2015 Social Science
A statistical model describes relationships between variables. Does one thing change another? Does one thing relate to another? Is something different from another in a fixed way? Can a large population be expected to follow along the same lines as…
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January 4, 2015 Medical Science
Fibrocystic disease is a condition of the breast in women. Typically it is a benign or noncancerous condition. Women may find lumps in their breasts or the breasts will become swollen or tender. Symptoms may increase right before the menstrual cycle. The…
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