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Motives for social research are sometimes complementary and sometimes conflicting.List three motives for social research and write a one-sentence definition of each.Imagine that you direct a government criminal justice agency.What might motivate you to conduct research on the impact of your parole policies? How might the motives for research conflict?
Personality Testing
The assessment of individual personality characteristics, typically through questionnaires or inventories, used for psychological, educational, and employment settings.
Null-Hypothesis
In statistical testing, a hypothesis that asserts there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default position to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.
P-Value
A statistical measure that helps to determine the significance of results obtained from a hypothesis test, indicating the probability of observing the results by chance.
Significance Testing
A statistical procedure used to determine whether the observed outcomes of a study are due to chance or if they have statistical significance, often through p-values.
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