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Statistics for Political Analysis will be an introduction to stats geared to political science students. Marchant-Shapiro will focus on the statistical tools most often used by political scientists and will use political examples, cases, and data throughout to show students how to answer real questions about politics using real political data. Her goal is to provide clear and accessible explanation and instruction so students not only understand the math, but can do the math. But instead of focusing on equations, Marchant-Shapiro will take a “how to” approach to doing the math, making the book much more approachable to political science students. Each chapter follows a 4-part structure: 1) the concept will be introduced with a real world example; 2) the statistical measure will be calculated using math; 3) the statistical concept will be used to solve a real-world problem using a political example, and 4) the student will use the concept to solve another real-world problem. Her exercises include those requiring hand-calculations and those requiring a statistical package like SPSS, and ask students to produce memos to emphasize how marketable and applicable their new skills are to a broad array of careers and jobs.
Describing the Pattern: What do You See?
Describing the Pattern: What do You See?
In the 2012 State of the Union, President Barack Obama instituted an innovation: Whereas television viewers saw the traditional view of the president facing members of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives, viewers on the White House's webpage had the option of an “enhanced” version. It contained a blue sidebar to the traditional image, presenting PowerPoint-style images to supplement the president's words.1 One of the images was of particular interest to those of us who are How to Lie with Statistics aficionados. As the president spoke the words “My administration has put more boots on the border than ever before,”2 the visual next to him showed the footprints ...
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