POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Causal Inference
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Use experiments to understand why people vote an others don"t , etc . / mr. fisher, muriel bristol 8 cups of tea half milk first, half tea first/ she identified all 8 cups correctly. The probability that she could get all the cups correct, by chance, is 1 in 70. We can learn from experiments, we can test peoples claims, treatment and control, randomization, measurement. Types of experiments-federalism and representation - clientalism and voting. Does federalism lead to better political representation. How do we stop patronage and instead get public goods. Does contact from political campaigns matter in elections. Assignment to treatment or control/ comparison groups is random and the process of randomization is known. Does prof. kopstein teach better when he wears a tie. Anything that is thought to have an effect on some outcome. Or it is appliead at some times and not others. Whether prof kopstein wears a tie to class to teach.
