Spring 2012

 

Designing Social Inquiry

 

Announcements:

Assignment 3: Invent a concept and then create a variable that would measure that concept

Assignment 4: Open the National Election Study using Stata, conduct frequency and central tendency analysis

Both Due Monday February 13th at 5pm by email to Kim Lee Tuxhorn

Links to Data in Stata format:

American National Election Study

General Social Survey

General Social Survey Codebook (pdf)

 

 

American Political Systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Teaching

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct
him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike
than those who think differently.
~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

It is the mark of an educated mind to
be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle

General Resources

 

 

Writing Rules
General Exam Grading Criteria

The American Political Science Association Style Manual

What is Critical Thinking?