POL SCI 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Speeders, Crackdown
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No control over the assignment of individuals or groups to experimental and control situations. Lack of control and lack of randomization are damaging to inferences of cause and effect only to the extent that a systematic consideration of alternative explanations reveals some that are plausible. Recorded for periods of time both prior and subsequent to the experience of the specific event to be studied. 1955 crackdown on speeding in the state of connecticut. 324 people were killed in car accidents on the highways: record high for the decade. In the first 3 months of 1956, there were 2,855 license suspensions. There were 10 fewer fatalities, and 765 fewer arrests for speeding. By late may, deaths had declined from 122 in 1955 to 107 in 1956. At the end of june, there were 22 fewer fatalities than the first 6 months of 1955. Maturation weakness = evidence concerning this thread of decreasing car accident death rates in connecticut.
