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studies, and observations Some of the problems involved in drawing conclusions from non-experimental studies. G Content analysis Studying the messages contained in media and communications. G Quantitative analysis: Descriptive statistics What to do with all those numbers and percentages at the end of the study. Measures of central tendency: Mean, median, and mode Levels of measurement Measures of dispersion: range, interquartile range, variation ratio, standard…

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Down the Rabbit−Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy−chain would be worth

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3 In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts . . . Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life . . . What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and…

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obvious ‘creative industries’: music, design, fine art, architecture and so on. Indeed, such activities can be argued to be at the heart of what the United Kingdom is about. Champions of the arts and of economic development have recently developed an alliance: they have linked this type of creativity to the type required for global competitiveness. The question is: is this link true? NESTA has over the past year been exploring this question in a series of research reports. This time, we…