Sociology 207: Quantitative Methods of Social Research
News and announcements
Information
Data
- Questionnaire from
survey on religion
- SPSS data from
survey on religion
- SPSS data from
survey on religion--including some recoded variables
- SPSS data on nations
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Questionnaire on which nations data is based
- Data on temperatures
in American Cities
- Data on
weather in 1000+ locations in US
Class Notes
Quotes
- "Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy,
innocent life, full of merriment and go, and informed by fairly good
judgment."--Hilaire Belloc, On Statistics.
- "Nor will the historian worship at the shrine of that Bitch-goddess,
QUANTIFICATION"--Carl Bridenbaugh, American Historical Review, 1963
- "...statistics are the most fascinating of all pursuits. If you
have any ulterior object, political or otherwise, you may find them
dry, tedious, and unsatisfactory. But if you love Science for her
own sake, she will return your affection, and invest your studies
with a charm unknown
to the votaries of wealth, pleasure, or ambition."
--Michael Mulhall, Contemporary Review, 1890
- "Let us remember the unfortunate econometrician who, in one of
the major functions of his system, had to use a proxy for risk and
a dummy for sex."--Fritz Machlup, Journal of Political Economy, 1974
- "nothing between human beings is more than three to one."
Attributed to Damon Runyon by Robert Solow, American Economic Review, 1985
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