Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

Subject Index 789
T-scores, 591
t-test, two sample, 595–98; test for statistical
significance, 597–98
24-hour recall test, 297, 418
two-group posttest-only design without
random assignment, 126, 126–28
two-group pretest-posttest design without
random assignment, 122, 122–23
two-group pretest-posttest with random
assignment, 118–21, 120
Two Leggings (Crow man), 472
two-tailed test, 584
Tylor, Edward, 516
Type I error, 586–87
Type II error, 586–87
unconstrained pile sort method. See free
pile sorts
unidimensional variables, 29–30, 321,
335
unique identifier, 552
unitizing, 510
units of analysis, 49–52; ecological fallacy,
51–52; rule about, 51
univariate analysis, 549; chi-square test,
591–92, 593; coding and, 550–55; dispersion
measures, 580–84; distribution,
visualization of, 572–80; frequency
distribution, 558–60, 558–61,
566; raw data, 555–58
Unobtrusive Measures (Webb), 445
unobtrusive observation: disguised field
observation, 437–44; ethics, 448. See
also participant observation; indirect
observation
unstandardized regression coefficients,
666
unstructured interviewing, 210, 211–12,
213–17; case example, 213–15; initial
steps, 215; language, importance of,
224–25; pacing, 225; practice,
223–24; presentation of self, 226–27;
probing, 217–23; respondents, handling
of, 216–17, 222–23; voice
recording and, 227–32. See also interviewing
Urban Life and Culture, 346
validity, 28, 53; determination of, 56–60;
of focus groups, 236–37; internal vs.
external validity, 113; participant
observation and, 354–56; problem
with, 60; of statistical significance testing,
640–44. See also threats to
validity
value neutrality, 372
values, 35–37
variables, 28–29; antecedent variables,
63, 607; character variables, 555; conceptual
definitions of, 37–40; dependent
vs. independent, 34–35; dichotomous
variables, 30–33; dummy
variables, 496, 623; interval and ratio
variables, 47–48; intervening variables,
63, 607; major kinds of, 90–91;
multidimensional variables, 29–30;
nominal variables, 45–47; ordinal variables,
47; qualitative variables, 556;
transforming variables, 634–35; unidimensional
variables, 29–30, 321
variance, 581–82; accounting for,
630–31
video, 423–25
Vienna Circle of logical positivists,
18–19
vignettes, 291–92
voice recognition software, 231–32
Voltaire, 11
Wah’Kon-Tah (Mathews), 471
Watergate experiment, 142–43
The Way to Rainy Mountain (Momaday),
471–72
WCJ (World Cultures Journal), 518
Web of Science, 97, 98–100
weighting, 156, 663
Whyte, W. F., 197