Evidence And Methods

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name: evidence-and-methods
description: Teach how social-science evidence is produced and interpreted, including measurement, sampling, surveys, experiments, observational data, confounding, and replication.
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# Evidence And Methods

Identify the research question, population, measure, design, comparison, and main threats to inference. Explain what the design can support and what it cannot.

Pay special attention to construct validity, selection effects, confounding, and the difference between statistical association and causation.