POL S 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operational Definition, Level Of Measurement
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Homework assignment #2 is due by midnight on wed, october. Homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, poverty - la times. Testable hypothesis ex 1 - from last class. Original testable hypothesis: californians who have completed at least two years of college were more likely to express support for the 2016 ballot proposition to continue higher income taxes on the wealthy (temporarily passed in 2012) An alternative: californians who have completed at least two years of college are more likely to score higher on a 1-100 feeling thermometer scale for the 2016 ballot proposition to continue higher income taxes on the wealthy. More precisely and reliably get at support by introducing the scale. What they do and do not consider terrorists attacks leaves out a lot of incidents. Unclear, unspecific in regard to what we"re trying to measure. We have no idea how they came up with these numbers they could"ve pulled it out of thin air.
