Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

780 Subject Index
kinship systems, 300
known group comparison, 59
Kunin, T., 340
KWIC technique, 495
Laban, Rudolf von, 420–21
labanotation, 421
laboratory experiments, 110, 130–31
ladder of life, 339, 339–40
La Llorana (Mexican folktale), 483–84
lambda, 608–9
lambda 1 design, 310; See also BIB
Lame Deer, John, 472
landmarks, 249
language, participant observation and,
360–63; importance in interviewing,
224
least squares line. See regression line
Left Handed (Navajo man), 472
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 4
leptokurtic distribution, 172, 172, 580
level of analysis, 80
level of significance, 585–86
levels of contrast, 538–39
LEXIS/NEXIS, 104
Likert scale, 327–35; building of,
328–35; item analysis, 330–35
Likert-type scales, 328
linear relations, 603
linear transformations, 591
Linguistics and Language Behavior
Abstracts (LLBA), 104
Literary Digest, 278–79
literature search. See documentation
resources
lived experience, 213
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior
Abstracts), 104
loaded questions, 276
location cues, 248
Locke, John, 4, 11
logical empiricism, 19
logical operators, 547
logical positivism, 19
logical time order, 61, 63
logic of experiments, 109
logic of hypothesis testing, 584–87
The Logic of Modern Physics (Bridgman),
44
logs, 392–94
longitudinal design, 288
longitudinal survey data, 463–64. See
also specific longitudinal surveys
long question probe, 219–20
loose talk phenomenon, 304
lost-letter technique, 137
Lowe, John, 342
Lucretius Carus, Titus, 7
lumper-splitter problem, 313
Luther, Martin, 7
Lysenko, T. D., 6
Mach, Ernst, 18
magnitude, 584
main effects, 145
mall-intercept survey, 161, 257
MANOVA (multiple-way ANOVA), 602
marginals, 605
materialist paradigm, 79
matrices, 454–60
maturation confound, 114–15
maximizing the between-group variance,
154, 162–66
MCAPI (mobile computer-assisted personal
interviewing), 254
McCarty, Christopher, 253
MCI, 233
McNabb, Steven, 377
MDS. See multidimensional scaling analysis
Mead, Margaret, 464
mean, 562, 566–72; grouped data, calculation
for, 567–68; large samples, testing
of, 588–89; mathematical feature
of, 568–69; outlier problem, 569,
571–72; under various distributions,
575, 575. See central limit theorem
measurement, 28, 35–37; levels of,
45–49; rule about, 49