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| Term | Definition |
| Face validity | The extent to which a measuring instrument appears to others to be measuring what it claims to measure. |
| Facts | Things that can be proven. Things held as unshakable truth. Not Values. |
| Falsifiability | In the context of theory construction, is the property of a theory to possibily be shown false. There are several ways to be non-falsifiable. One is to be circular (tautological). For example, to explain why people do dumb things, you could theorize that it is because they are dumb. If you then define dumb as a person who does dumb things, the theory is circular. Another way is to appeal to things that can't be measured. For example, to explain why people go to the movies, we could theorize that they want to. But there is no way to measure whether they want to that would avoid circularity. |
| Falsification | Popper's notion that you can only prove something to be true by failing to falsify it. |
| Felcific calculus | People choose based on optimum utility. |
| Feminism | Seeks to counterbalance the androcentric bias inherent in much 'scientific' research. |
| Field Experiment | A field experiment is a study in which you make changes in the independent variable to see how it affects the dependent variable, but otherwise you leave everything in its natural state. For example, an ethologist (someone who studies animal behavior), might put sugar water at different distances from a bee nest in order to observe how the difference in distance affects the dance that the bees do on returning home to communicate where food is. |
| Field notes | Notes taken by researchers to record unstructured observations they make 'in the field' and their interpretation of those observations. |
| Field Study | A field study is a study in which the researcher goes to a research site and observes and asks questions, but does not change anything. It's like a naturalist observing wildlife without doing anything like setting out food to attract animals, or making obstacles to see how the animals react. |
| Field study (field research) | a research method involving observation in natural settings. Field studies vary in the degree the researcher observes or participates. |
| Focus group | An interview conducted with a small group of people to explore their ideas on a particular topic. |
| Frequency distribution | 1. A visual display of numerical values ranging from the lowest to the highest, showing the number of times (frequency) each value occurs. 2. a list of categories of a variable and their corresponding frequencies (the number of occurrences for each category), percents and relative percents. 3. set of categories and the number of cases in each category. |
| Game Theory | Simplification of human behaviour to a series of games that can be modelled, often mathematically. Includes games of 'chicken', 'Prisoners' dilemma' and the Nash equilibrium. Closely related to economics. |
| Gamma | Measure of association appropriate when both of the variables consist of ordered categories. |
| Generalizing | Extending a concept proven in one area to others areas. |
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