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Search the Web for a social science example of statistics. Using
the Key Terms from this chapter, describe the set of statistics
you have identified. Which social phenomena does this set of statistics
describe? What relationships, if any, do the statistics identify?
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Go to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Web site
at http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu.
Now pick the presidential approval ratings data, at
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/Roperweb/PresJob/PresJob.htx;start=HS_index.
Choose any two U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the
present. By using the Web site
links, locate the presidential job performance poll data for the
two presidents you have chosen.
Based on poll data on presidential job performance, create a brief
report that includes the following
for each president you chose: the presidents you chose and their
years in office; the questions asked in the polls; and bar charts
showing years when polls were taken, average of total percentage
approving of job performance, average of total percentage disapproving
of job performance, and average of total percentage with no opinion
on job performance. Write a brief summary comparing and contrasting
your two bar charts.
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Do a Web search for information on a social science subject
you are interested in. How much of
the information you find relies on statistics as a tool for understanding
the subject? How do statistics
allow researchers to test their ideas about the subject and generate
new ideas? Write your findings in a brief report, referring to
the Web sites that you relied on.
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