LWSOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Comparative Politics, Berlin Wall, Blind Experiment
30 Oct 2017
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Not , on : this method must allow a valid inference to be drawn, . Regardless of who does the: e=mc 2 whether albert einstein, andy warhol, or patrick kavanagh was the the work. Method original author of this equation. The classic experimental design is a thing of great (logical) beauty: we want to know the effect of some new drug or treatment . Split randomly into two halves: we use a double blind , the subject population is , half is given the , nobody even those administering the experiment, knows which is which, treatment and control groups are, ideally, . Except the treatment--though we never know this for sure, given possible variation : following treatment, we observe if treated subjects are different predicted . Logical the only thing that differs between groups. Field experiment: ex: experiment conducted by leonard wantchekon in benin, the aim was to investigate whether clientelistic appeals by electoral candidates.
