SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Qualitative Property, List Of Statistical Packages, Analysis Of Variance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

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Random assignment or even matched pairs assignment is not practical (field experiment different than field research, which is participant observation) New teaching technique (unlikely that classes split up for purposes of experimentation) Minimum wage program affects the likelihood that welfare recipients might find jobs ( test program in one community vs. other communities as control groups ) Aside from the absence of random assignment, these designs look much like regular experiments but they are not true experiments (quasi-experiments) Less likely to be influenced by internal validity threats. We have one group that gets a treatment and then they are tested, other group does not get the treatment and is then tested. Make sure to know that a static group comparison is another way of saying a cross-sectional survey has been conducted. People who select themselves into university could be very different in terms of their personalities/other characteristics.