POL222H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Field Experiment, Random Assignment
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Complete the exercise below as much as possible before the tutorial session for essay 2. You will have an opportunity to discuss your essay ideas with your classmates and receive peer feedback in the tutorial session: what is your causal theory/hypothesis, proposal of empirical research design. In the essay, you will propose only one empirical research design. That is, you need to choose either an experiment or an observational study for your research design. In this exercise, you may choose either one or explore both types of empirical research. (1) experimental research. Propose an experimental research design either laboratory, field, or survey experiment to empirically test your causal theory. Remember that great care should be given to how you assign the value of the treatment to the participants. 1 if your independent variable (= treatment) takes only two values, you may assign one group as the treatment group and the other the control group.
