POLSCI 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anatolia, Collectively Exhaustive Events
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President: why are some coups successful in asia minor while others are not, why do some turkish president"s insight coups while others do not, hypothesis and variables do not reflect the research question. Inconsistent unit of analysis: the question will be asking about the states and the hypothesis will about the individual, hypotheses missing the casual or directional relationship, can"t just say will affect , key concepts are not clearly specified. Move from a research question and hypothesis to the beginning of a research strategy. Think about what concepts we"re interested in, and how we"re going to measure them. Take what is abstract and make it tangible. We need to conceptualize and then measure. Definition: abstraction based on characteristics of perceived reality. Ideas or constructs that represent real-world phenomena. The properties or attributes that define them. A label covering both 1 and 2 (ie, the term) Variables = a property associated with a concept that varies when measured.
