PSCI 2701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Syllogism, Ecological Fallacy, Neoliberalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2701
• Professor: Steve White

Document Summary

Normative analysis (statement and assumption) and empirical analysis (evidence based) For our course, we"re interested in empirical analysis. In terms of empirical, we use qualitative (non-numerical) and quantitative (numerical) First part of this course (2016) is qualitative. Validity how we know what we want to measure we measure what we want to measure . Needs to prove that we have a concept, we have two variables, for this reason we know that it"s valid. We measure what we stated we will measure. Theory: a reason and precise speculation about the answer to a research question, including a statement about why the proposed answer is correct . Which route will i choose? (uni under construction) we already made our assumptions and we already asked questions. But in poli sci we have theories because we want to create hypothesis and test it so we must have a particular theory.