Write a paper discussing Hypothesis and Experiments
Write a paper discussing Hypothesis and Experiments
Part A. Hypotheses and Experiments
Question #1.
“Wealthy people are more likely to vote for the Republican candidate in the presidential
election.”
a. In this hypothesis, state the independent variable, and give examples of two values
that it can take on.
b. State the dependent variable, and give two values that it can take on.
c. Propose one intervening variable that could complete the causal path between the
independent variable and the dependent variable.
Question #2
This question focuses on the paper, “Information, Knowledge, and Attitudes: An
Evaluation of the Taxpayer Receipt,” by Lucy Barnes, Avi Feller, Jake Haselswerdt, and
Ethan Porter.
a. What kind of study is this: a natural experiment, a randomized experiment, or a
quasi-experiment? Please give an answer, define that type of experiment, and
explain why this paper is an example of that type of experiment.
b. The authors begin their paper by pointing out a possible cofound? What is the
confound that plagues these past studies?
c. How does the research design rule out that confound?
Part B. Data Project
Throughout the four homework projects, you will test a hypothesis of your own devising. political Inquiry.In
this homework assignment, we will not ask you to open any datasets or perform any analysis
with STATA – which is a good thing, since we have not taught you how to do that yet. For
now, you need to choose which dataset to use, and you need to state the hypothesis that you
will test in the three assignments that will follow. These three datasets are:
• ANES 2016. This is the National Election Study, which surveyed a random sample
of 2,054 Americans over the course of the last election season, asking them about their
characteristics, their political opinions, and their voting behavior. All the variables contained
in this dataset are listed and described in STATA Manual pp. 124-138. The only variables
that you can pick as the dependent variable for your hypothesis are the feeling
thermometer ratings
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