Respond to all 20 items. To earn full credit, your answers must be numbered and submitted in the correct order. They must be clear and concise.
Read the following:You are interested in the effects of beerconsumption on strength of political opinions.You have reason to believe that people over 50 years old will be affected differentlythan people under 50 years old.Based on this information, respond to the following questions: (5 points each)
1. Create a testable hypothesis (Note: it is inappropriate to predict no difference). Be sure to include all variables that are mentioned in the above description.
2. Operationally define your independent variable(s) if any.
3. Operationally define your dependent variable(s)
4. Are any of your independent variables ones that cannotbe randomly assigned? If so, which one(s) and why?
5. How will participants be assigned to conditions?Explain why?
6. What will you do to ensure thatyou know the IV is what causes the difference on theDV?Explain your answer.
7. What ethical considerations have you made? How will you protect your subjects fromthese issues? (state this in terms of your particular study)
8. Identify the design of your study.
9. Have you chosen the best method to answer the research question?Explain why orwhy not?
10. Identify 2 possible confoundingsthat you have considered (be specific).Explain how you have controlled for them.
11. How might your personal biases affect your ability to conduct this study orinterpret its results?
12. Write one survey item that might be included in a survey about your research topic.Before you start your experiment, you review previous research articles on political opinions:
13. What section of the article would describe the statistical tests that were used to determine significant findings?
14. What section of a journal article would tell you how many subjects participated?
15. Where would you find the author’s hypothesis?
16. Where would you find the author’s interpretation of their data?In your review of the literature, you find that there is a .86 correlation between strength of political opinionand political engagement.
17. What type of relationship is this?
18. Explain what this relationship means.Fill in the blanks:
19. _______________is the only research method that allows us to determine a cause and effect relationship.
20. _______________does not imply causation.
