REQUIRED TEXT: Miethe. Terance D. Simple Statistics/Applications in Criminology and Criminal Justice Roxbury Publishing Company Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 978-1-933220-06-6
Reading Assignment #1
Chapters 1 & 2
Date Due: Janurary 31, 2026
Possible Points: 50
Project Duration: 6-8 hours
Deliverable Length: 2-3 pages
Define the following key terms:
NOTE: Define the following key terms: (Please number your definitions and put your name on your paper and list reference(s)
If the above information above is not included points will be deducted.
- Bivariate Analysis
- Casual Validity
- Data
- Developmental Chain
- Descriptive Statistics
- Distal Causes
- Inferential Statistics
- Ecological Fallacy
- Multivariate Analysis
- Empirical Association
- Population Parameters
- Proximate Causes
- Social Statistics
- Random Assignment
- Univariate Analysis
- Spuriousness
- Variable
- Temporal Ordering
Answer the following research questions.
1. What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics?
2. A Gallup poll in 2004 reports that 34% of American adults think that marijuana should be legal. What does this statistic tell you about Americans support for legalizing marijuana?
Here are some more detailed questions to show what you have learned. Make sure to think about the major sources of GIGO when you answer them. Be an informed and critical consumer of this information by approaching each of these questions from a Yes, but orientation.
3. The amount of ice cream consumed in a city and its crime rates are highly related. Cities with higher rates of ice cream consumption have higher crime rates. Can we conclude from this that eating a lot of ice cream causes people to be criminals? Why or why not?
4. States with capital punishment have higher murder rates than states without capital punishment. Based on this finding, can you conclude that the threat of capital punishment is not a general deterrent for homicide? Why or why not?
Requirements: as needed
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