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Chicago Style Format |
Author. date. "Title of Article." Journal Title, volume(issue): pg numbers. |
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Definition of empirical research and 2 variations |
Research based on actual "objective: observation of a phenomena qual and quan |
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Qualitative research |
Takes place in a natural setting, interpretive research. |
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Quantitative Research |
confirmatory, deduces the answer from data. |
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What are the 3 Belmont principles |
Respect for persons (informed consent) Beneficence (risks/benefits) Justice (fairness in risk/benefit distribution) |
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What is the IRB |
The Institutional Review Board |
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What is the IRBs purpose |
Administrative body established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects |
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Hypothesis template |
If x increases, then Y decreases |
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4 types of surveys |
Mail, internet, phone, face to face |
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Independent variable |
changes other variable both positively and negatively |
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moderator variable |
variables that change the effects, can have an impact on results |
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dependent variable |
seeking to explain, response to stimulus |
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control variable |
include in analysis because we know they have impact. Typically socioeconomic variables |
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intervening variable |
may/may not be identified, can assume effect from the impact it has on the analysis |
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cofounding variable |
possible effect that cannot be identified |
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Levels of measurement and analysis |
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio |
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Nominal |
no ranking to the answers, characteristics that cannot be changed |
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Ordinal |
arrange in some sort of order (not always numeric) |
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Interval |
precise distance between variables, mostly used for age |
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Ratio |
rarely used in social science. things like temp or iq points |
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Concepts |
Concrete and conceptual |
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Concrete |
expressed using tangible qualities "democracy has election every 4 years" |
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Conceptual |
ideal, political theory questions, hard to test empirically "what is democracy?" |
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What goes into an introduction |
tell them what you're going to tell them thesis statement, research question engage the reader |
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What goes into the conclusion |
Tell them what your paper says (findings) accessible to the reader what future research should be done, limitation to research. |
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Correlation |
one variable causes the other |
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Correlation |
both variables change in a consistent pattern |
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Validity |
Decide if something is measured correctly, look at data to make sure it matches assumptions |
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two types of validity |
face validity (informed judgement from literature) construct validity (does it interact the way we expect) |
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Reliability |
How often would you get the same response/observation |
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2 types of errors |
systematic measurement error (consistent distortion of data) random measurement error (haphazard distortion of data) |
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6 different ways to study comparative politics |
-1 country study -2 or more country study -regional study -compare across regions -global comparison -thematic studies |
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Define observational studies |
data collected through observing activities of people |
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Textual analysis |
trying to demonstrate what the text says, can do this by coding language |
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Type of samples |
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Simple random sample |
randomly generate numbers for everyone and select numbers to sample |
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systematic random sample |
number everyone 1-15,000 sample every 5th person |
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stratified sample |
divide population into sub groups and sample from within groups |
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cluster sample |
pick a smaller region to over sample |
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Why write a lit review |
to understand what the current state of the field is |
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Ways to organize lit review |
find a focus what their contribution is is there a trend in the literature organization methodological differences |
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Central tendency |
Mode (any variable) Median (ordinal, interval, ratio) Mean (interval and ration) |
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Research question design |
should be interesting, important, direct, doable, and start with an appropriate word. |
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4 quasi experiment approaches |
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steps taken to create a survey |
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research process steps |
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5 qualities of a research question |
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what are the 4 assertions of scientific knowledge and define them |
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