POLS 2998 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
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Introduction: studying the president (to get random sample of americans it can cost around ,000, pros. The president is powerful, even more powerful than when we started the country. Congress and courts do too, but the president is the head figure (single person) for our country. Since single person it is much more personal. The only elected official that represents the entire country not just small constituencies: cons. Congress is analytically rich because there are so many members. The presidency is one so not really any analytical information. There is no variation or estimate because it is only hypothetical unless talking about an actual presidency. There is only so many to look at since the beginning. You can compare but since they are from different times in. Descriptive and inferential analyses: analysis of a set of data; analysis of a set of data as a sample.