POLI 205

POLI 205 Course Paper Questions

Analysis

1. What dataset did you use? Did you cite it? 2. What was your independent variable? What question did it ask of a respondent?

If you created your own dataset, what was the source of this data and did you cite it? How was your variable measured (continuous, categorical, binary, etc.) and did you transform or recode in any way? Did you remove any observations from your dataset?

3. What was your dependent variable? What question did it ask of a respondent? If you created your own dataset, what was the source of this data and did you cite it? How was your variable measured (continuous, categorical, binary, etc.) and did you transform or recode in any way? Did you remove any observations from your dataset?

4. What method did you use? Why is that method appropriate for your independent and dependent variables?

5. What is the null hypothesis? What is the alternative hypothesis? 6. What is the critical value for the test you are using? Are you using a two-tailed

or one-tailed alternative hypothesis? 7. Did you show your calculations? Was your test statistic statistically significant?

At what level? 8. Did you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?