POL SCI 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Get Out The Vote, Milgram Experiment
23 Sep 2016
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Control: 5 minutes of food ads or nothing. Treatment x: 5 minutes of attack ads. Hypothesis: x (attack ads) has an effect on y (political cynicism) Blocking variables: pretreatment y (11 categories), pid (3 categories), gender (2 categories), race (2 categories) Experimenter publishes a plan what he plans to do and what he expects to see. This allows you to get a better sense of number of studies done, because not all studies published (if no findings or bad findings researchers do not publish the results) What is the same study, but crepo no block in pretreatment y. What if sol 4 built in replication! Treatment design variations (1) multi group treatment: many many treatment groups, ex. Medical studies on different dosages, y=wellness, x=different c. dosages of medicine. Gotv efforts 2 messages: duty and fear and 3 vehicles: face to face, phone, flyer 2 by 3 factorial, x1 x2 x3 . 7 experimental groups: 6 treatment, 1 control b. iv.
