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1. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. Spend some time watching a few TED talks that are of interest to you. Review the definition of validity and reliability from your textbook. Do you think the TED talks you watched are valid and reliable sources of research? Why or why not? Be sure to include specific examples to support your assertions. Be sure to respond to at least two other learners. 2. After watching the video clip titled Correlation Vs Causation, do you agree with the presenter that there is no place for correlation in research? Why or why not? Please cite sources from this module in your reasoning or feel free to use outside sources or life experiences to support your thoughts. Provide specific examples or reasoning to support your assentation(s). Please be sure to respond to at least two other learners furthering the discussion with questions and/or examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oAf3g5_138 3. After viewing the TED talk "Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability", share your thoughts on the concept of a story teller researcher. Please include references to any of the other readings, presentations, or examples from your own life. Be sure to respond to at least two other learners furthering the discussion with questions or examples. 4. After viewing "The Critical Thinking" video this week, share an experience you had where someone did not apply critical thinking. How did you know they were not using critical thinking skills? How could the individual have improved their critical thinking in the situation you described? How might you demonstrate critical thinking in your literature review paper due this week? Please cite the video or any outside sources used. 5. Find one quantitative peer reviewed journal article (hint: the articles are normally longer than 10 pages) and answer the following questions: How does the author theoretically and conceptually define concepts used in the study? Is the conceptual definition reasonable? Why? Does the author specify a hypothesis, and what are the dependent and independent variables? Are there advantages and disadvantages of using the variables employed in the research? Share your own experiences or opinions regarding the quantitative article you have chosen. Respond to at least two other learners' posts, identifying attitudinal independent variables that might have been used in the research project discussed. 6. Suppose that you want to conduct research to support a proposed policy to keep prisoners with mental health diagnoses out of segregation. What research design would you use to examine if there is a causal relationship between segregation and competency and why? To keep our discussion interesting, please work to not use examples already provided by other learners. There are multiple ways to approach such a study. Respond to at least two other learners identifying why their design would be sufficient for measurement and at least one area for further consideration in the design. 7. Suppose a social worker's research found that prisoners who are placed in segregation have significantly higher rates of mental health decompensation. How might the social worker use graphics to highlight this important finding? Choose one of the visual aids discussed in Chapter 15 and create a sample graphic with reasonable numbers that communicate this finding. Please remember that there are multiple options to measure the proposed concept; work to not copy what has already been submitted. 8. If you were leading a focus group with a client and his group of friends, how would you structure the group, and what questions would you ask? 9. After reading " The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Implications for the 21st Century" do you agree with the statement by James H. Jones, an historian and specialist in bioethical issues: “As a symbol of racism and medical malfeasance, the Tuskegee Study may never move the nation to action, but it can change the way Americans view illness. Hidden within the anger and anguish of those who decry the experiment is a plea for government authorities and medical officials to hear the fears of people whose faith has been damaged, to deal with their concerns directly, and to acknowledge the link between public health and community trust. Government authorities and medical officials must strive to cleanse medicine of social infection by eliminating any type of racial or moral stereotypes of people or their illnesses. They must seek to build a health system that will make adequate health care available to all Americans. Anything less will leave some groups at risk, as it did the subjects of the Tuskegee Study”. Do you agree government should be involved in research? Why or why not? Be sure to respond to at least two other learners furthering discussion by asking questions or adding examples. http://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethicsarticles/The_Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study_and_Its_Implications_for_the_21st_Century/
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1. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful
talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology,
Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science
to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently
run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. Spend some time
watching a few TED talks that are of interest to you. Review the definition of validity and
reliability from your textbook. Do you think the TED talks you watched are valid and
reliable sources of research? Why or why not? Be sure to include specific examples to
support your assertions. Be sure to respond to at least two other learners.
I believe that the TED talks I watched are actually valid and reliable sources of research
because of their ability to provide a great deal of information and also because they have
been proven to be very effective by the scientific community. I have found that they are
very informative and entertaining, but also contain some of the most interesting ideas in
history. The TED talks I watched provided a lot of information which seems to be
coming from reliable sources such as books, articles and other sources. Also, the speakers
of these talks were very knowledgeable and had a good amount of knowledge about the
topic at hand. One example of this is the famous Ted talk on artificial intelligence. It was
given by Sam Harris, who is an expert in Al and machine learning. In his Ted Talk he
talks about how artificial intelligence can help us solve problems faster than we could
ever hope to solve them ourselves. He talks about how computers can learn and then use
their own brains for the purpose of solving problems. The information that Sam Harris
gives seems valid and reliable due to the fact that it is based on research done by
scientists that have been working on this field for years.
2. After watching the video clip titled Correlation Vs Causation, do you agree with the
presenter that there is no place for correlation in research? Why or why not? Please cite
sources from this module in your reasoning or feel free to use outside sources or life
experiences to support your thoughts. Provide specific examples or reasoning to support
your assentation(s). Please be sure to respond to at least two other learners furthering the
discussion with questions and/or examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oAf3g5_138
I disagree with the presenter. I believe there is a place for correlation in research because
there are many studies that have been done on this topic and it has proven to be a very
useful way of studying the effects of different variables. I do not think that there is any
reason why we should not use correlation in research. It is just another method of looking
at data, which can be used to make predictions about what will happen next. For example,
correlation in research is beneficial to research when it comes to finding out if a certain
variable affects the outcome of an experiment because it allows researchers to see how
well they know the effect of their experimental results. It also helps them to understand

how much more likely they are to find out whether or not something is likely to occur. In
addition, it is also helpful to have a better understanding of the relationship between
variables and how they affect each other. This is especially important when studying the
effects of different variables on one another, such as temperature or rainfall in a particular
area. Because of this, I believe correlation is very important for research.
3. After viewing the TED talk "Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability", share your
thoughts on the concept of a storyteller researcher. Please include references to any of the
other readings, presentations, or examples from your own life. Be sure to respond to at
least two other learners furthering the discussion with questions or examples.
I believe the concept of a storyteller researcher is a very important one. A researcher who
also identifies themselves as a storyteller can be an excellent source for information about
their own life and can help to develop a more informed approach to research. This is
important because researchers are often asked to write stories that they have heard from
others, or in other words, people in their lives. In addition, it is important to note that
many researchers do not consider themselves storytellers. They may think that they are
just writing stories, but in reality, these stories are actually telling a story about someone
else's life or experiences. From my own experience, when I conduct research about any
topic that I will be writing about, I realize that what I'm really doing by gathering all this
research and writing about it, is that I'm actually telling a story in the form of research.
4. After viewing "The Critical Thinking" video this week, share an experience you had
where someone did not apply critical thinking. How did you know they were not using
critical thinking skills? How could the individual have improved their critical thinking in
the situation you described? How might you demonstrate critical thinking in your
literature review paper due this week? Please cite the video or any outside sources used.
An experience that I had where I witnessed someone who did not apply critical thinking
was at work when two of my co-workers were having conflicts with each other over a
project. I knew they weren’t using critical thinking because they weren't thinking because
instead of sharing their feelings calmly and working together to figure out why something
happened, they would just say it out loud and become defensive. This is the type of
behavior that can be seen in many situ...


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