POL101Y1 Lecture : NOVEMBER 5 2012.docx
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Political methodology declare the use of experiments to answer questions about democracy. The milk or tea example with fisher and bristol myrle: the start of it all. Prove that we can learn and test people"s claims with treatments and controls, randomizations, and measurements. Experiments: have to have treatments, coincidence (have a controlled stimulus), assignment to treatment or control, comparison group is random and randomization is known, and post measurements of results. Treatments: a stimulus, anything that has a effect that is applied to the same time or people. Random assignment: some subject in treatment control that is random and independent to own conditions. Post measurements: need to measure the results (casual effect) to make a casual inference. It has to have all three parts to make the inference. What is the casual effect: different in outcome between two states (treated vs. untreated) Random assignment enables us to create 2 groups whose treated/untreated states are same in experiments.
