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The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior. The ANES Guide provides tables and graphs which display the over-time ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior and choice. Data are from the ANES Time Series. The Core Utility lists all survey questions from ANES Time Series studies according to the Core or non-Core status which was assigned to them for the most recent Time Series study. ANES Search Utility: find ANES questions and variable documentation. Please be aware that datasets may...
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How to read ANES data into SPSS. How to unZIP a file. What can you do when you visit the ANES website and what resources are available? Read an overview of studies conducted by ANES. Read about how ANES studies are released as datasets. Download data and documentation for a study. Read details about the individual studies. Examine codebooks or questionnaires for individual studies, or find other study materials. Find a question asked by ANES. Find prepared tables of data from ANES studies. 2) In addition...
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Online Text Books | SSRIC - Social Science Research and Instructional Council
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Field Research Corporation Fellowship. Social Science Student Symposium. Links to Other Instructional Sites. Council Meetings Minutes Archive. The following online texts are freely available:. Exercises Using the 2014 General Social Survey: Statistics. There are two versions - one for use with SPSS. The other for use with PSPP*. Soon there will be a third version using SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis). Or download our handouts, “ Notes on Using PSPP. Or download our handout, Notes on Using SDA.
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Current Events » Gail Johnson's Research Demystified
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Gail Johnson's Research Demystified. Handy Dandy Guide to Research Basics. Category Archives: Current Events. Hate Crimes In America. August 3, 2016. In the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, the NY Times pulled together data about hate crimes in America. Click Here. The articles leads: “Even before the shooting rampage. 8221; Continue reading ». Posted in Current Events. Body Mass Index: How Good a Measure. August 29, 2014. See article: Click Here. In brief, the authors write:. Sometimes simple measu...
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Quotes » Gail Johnson's Research Demystified
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Gail Johnson's Research Demystified. Handy Dandy Guide to Research Basics. Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything. Gregg Easterbrook. 98% of all statistics are made up. Author Unknown. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. Author Unknown. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang. Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.” W.A. Wallis. Wrote Real objectivity would...
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Happiness » Gail Johnson's Research Demystified
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Gail Johnson's Research Demystified. Handy Dandy Guide to Research Basics. Happiness: A Function of Ideology? March 12, 2015. The New York Times reported a story today that looked at research about happiness and ideology. The research suggests what while conservatives are more likely to report being happy, liberals are more likely to evidence happy behaviors. See NY Times article: Click Here. August 18, 2014. They described the methodology:. 8220;About the study:. Posted in Critical Thinking. May 24, 2010.
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health » Gail Johnson's Research Demystified
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Gail Johnson's Research Demystified. Handy Dandy Guide to Research Basics. Body Mass Index: How Good a Measure. August 29, 2014. Mother Jones posted an article questioning whether the body mass index is “a big fat scam.” It raises questions about the measure itself, the extent to which it is a predictor of health, and the politics. See article: Click Here. In brief, the authors write:. Links: Washington Post article: change to BMI standard: Click here. Link to obesity meta analysis study: Click here.
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UC DATA :PEOPLE
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DATA on the WEB. Cracks in the Pavement. UCDATA's director, UCDATA's director, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, won the prestigious C. Wright Mills award at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, for his recently published book, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press. Follow UC DATA on Twitter. SDA - Survey Documentation and Analysis. Roper Center Recent Acquisitions. Field's Latest Press Releases. Berkeley, CA 94720-3030.
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UC DATA :RESEARCH AREAS : Demographics
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DATA on the WEB. Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years. Authors Michael Hout and Claude Fischer report on the the tension between diversity and sameness that has persisted throughout American history. Distinct cultural heritages and different ways of life have emerged in America throughout its 200 years; and yet Americans coalesce around common principles: belief in God, in democracy, in the just reward for hard work, and in freedom of choice, for example. Asian Pacific...