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Measurement
9/11/2012
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Readings
• Chapter 3 Proposing Explanations, Framing Hypotheses, and Making Comparisons (Pollock) (pp.48-58)
• Chapter 1 Introduction to SPSS (Pollock Workbook)
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OPPORTUNITIES TO DISCUSS COURSE CONTENT
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Office Hours For the Week
• When– And appointment
• Not scientific knowledge
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Course Learning Objectives
1. Students will learn the research methods commonly used in behavioral sciences and will be able to interpret and explain empirical data.
2. Students will learn the basics of research design and be able to critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different types of design.
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INDEXES AND SCALESA way of getting content validity
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Why create a scale/index?
• To form a composite measure of a complex phenomenon by using two or more items
• Get at all facets
• Simplify our data
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Likert Scale
• A common way of creating a scale
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
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Guttman Scaling
• Employs a series of items to produce a score for respondents
• Ordering questions that become harder to agree with
• Advantages and disadvantages
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Guttman Scale
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SPSS
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
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What is a statistical package
• Popular Versions – SPSS – SAS – R – Stata
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Getting SPSS
Don’t• Purchase a student version
– Limited functions– Limited variables
• Searching the internet for a “free version”– You might get a virus– The Russians will steal your
identity (exception fallacy).
Do• Use it on the machines on
campus- free!
• Consider purchasing a 6-month license (49.00 + 4.99 download fee)
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How to Open Data files• Data Files on the Pollack CD
• GSS2008.SAV- the 2008 General Social Survey Dataset– n=2023 – 301 variables
• NES2008.SAV- the National Election Study from 2008. n=2323 – 302 variables
• STATES.SAV- aggregate level data for the 50 States. N=50 – 82 Variables
• WORLD.SAV- aggregate level data for the nations of the world. n=191 – 69 Variables
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SPSS uses 2 windows
• Data Editor Window – is used to define and enter your data and to perform
statistical procedures. – very spread-sheet like – .sav extension
• The Output Window – this is where results of statistical tests appear– This opens when you run your first test – .spv extension
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HOW SPSS WORKS
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It is like a spreadsheet
• In Variable View– You define your
parameters
– Give variables names
– Operationalize variables
• We will not do a lot of this
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Names and Labels
Name• how the label appears at
the top of the column (like the first row in excel)
• you cant use dashes, special characters or start with numbers
• These should represent the variable
Labels• A longer definition of the
variable
• These describe the actual variable
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Value Labels
• This shows how variables are operationalized
• Value= the numeric value given to a category
• Label= the attribute of the concept
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In Data View
• You type in raw data
• It looks very much like Excel
• Rows= cases
• Columns= Variables
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How Things are Displayed
Edit• Options• Display names• Alphabetical
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Exiting SPSS
• If you changed the actual dataset you must save it
• If you ran any statistics, you must save these as well
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Variables
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Variables
• Measured Concepts
• We need to operationalize concepts to test hypotheses
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Four Categories of Variables
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DISCRETE VARIABLES
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Nominal Variables
• Identify, label, and operationalize categories
• Categories are– Exhaustive– Mutually Exclusive
• Values are their for quantification only
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Nominal Examples
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Ordinal Variables
• These identify, rank order, label, and operationalize categories
• The Numbers mean something here
• Operationalization denotes more or less of an attribute
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Ordinal Examples
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CONTINUOUS VARIABLES
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What about em’
• The values matter
• Your variable includes all possible values, not just the one’s that you assign.
• Name, order, and the distances between values matter.
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Interval Level Variables
• The values matter at this level
• The distances matter
• The zero is arbitrary
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Examples of Interval Scales
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Ratio Variables
• The Full properties of numbers
• A zero means the absence of a property
• Classify, order, set units of distance