POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Logical Data Model, Internal Validity, Temporality

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If you want to construct a political science (particularly positivist in orientation: how do you structure your observations. So that it is reasonable to conclude that x causes y. There are different types of research design: logical architecture; structures the way you examine the data; (positivist research) persuasive answers. But (at least for positivist research) they all attempt to demonstrate persuasive answers to three issues: temporality, correlation. Spuriousness: you have to demonstrate that the cost, independent variable has to be established. Came before the effect; that it came before the dependent: to say that there is a causal relationship between two variables; have to demonstrate that they move together; some. Movement: is there any other variable that can account for the correlation? (e. g ice cream & Drowning: that there are no rival explanations that, ways of structuring experimental designs so might account. that we can rule out other explanations; The experimental method represents the archetypal approach for.

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