POL101Y1 Lecture : Experiments in Democracy, November 14th.docx
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Robert fisher did an experiment where 4 cups had the milk in first and 4 with the tea in first. The probability that one can get all 8 cups correct is 1 in 70. A chance to complete experiments for extra marks. Does federalism lead to better political representation. How do we stop patronage and instead get public goods. Does contact from political campaigns matter in an election. Assignment to treatment or control/comparison groups is random and the process of. Example: whether prof. kopstein wears a tie to class to teach randomization is known. Anything that is thought to havr an effect on some outcome. It is applied to some people and not to others. Or, it is applied at some times and not others. We put some subjects in treatment and some in control. What does it mean that this is done randomly. What we want to measure are causal effects.