Quantitative Methods in PoliticsA.A. Knopf, 1928 - 331 Seiten |
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adjacent agreement American Political appear average behavior blocs boundaries Bryan candidate cent changes chapter City classes classification coefficient of variation column compared comparisons concerning correlation counties Democratic determined differences in rank direction distribution of attitude Distribution of opinions economic election districts electorate evolution factors Farmer-Labor Party farmers Figure Follette vote frequency given Henrik Shipstead hypothesis identifications index of cohesion indicated individual initiative and referendum interest involved Iowa issue Jersey senate Karl Pearson labor laborites latter legislative measure ment method Minnesota Missouri River mode nationality North Dakota number of votes party percentage political attitudes Political Science population possible present presidential progressivism question radical ratio reference referendum regarded relatively represented Republican respect result roll calls rural scientific seems Senator shopping area social science statistical stereotypes Table tendency tion total vote United States Senator units Up-State variable variation vote received voters votes cast wards York York City
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Seite 20 - The man who classifies facts of any kind whatever, who sees their mutual relation and describes their sequences, is applying the scientific method and is a man of science.
Seite 22 - ... reality lies outside us, and that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our 'creations' are simply our notes of our observations.
Seite 57 - Corporation; Howard Heinz, manufacturer of food products ; and Senator George Wharton Pepper, of Pennsylvania. In the first aspect of the experiment, the subjects were informed that the sheet contained the pictures of a bootlegger, a European premier, a bolshevik, a United States Senator, a labor leader, an editor-politician, two manufacturers, and a financier. They were asked to identify these individuals by number.
Seite 52 - attitude" will be used here to denote the sum total of a man's inclinations and feelings, prejudice or bias, preconceived notions, ideas, fears, threats, and convictions about any specified topic.
Seite 26 - For if of the molecules of some substance such as hydrogen, some were of sensibly greater mass than others, we have the means of producing a separation between molecules of different masses, and in this way we should be able to produce two kinds of hydrogen, one of which would be somewhat denser than the other. As this cannot be done, we must admit that the equality which we assert to exist between the molecules of hydrogen applies to each individual molecule, and not merely to the average of groups...
Seite 23 - ... or touch or smell the group relationships which in some perplexing manner bind the members of the jazz orchestra together. The first surmise that each member is wholly independent of the others in thought and action eventually breaks down, and it is perceived that they have organization, but the organization seems less tangible than the saxophone. In actuality the two types of data are not as dissimilar as they seem. The existence of the saxophone is only inferred from sense impressions of it....
Seite 117 - England,'' or to the page of the legislative journal in America, will make it possible to identify readily the vote if necessary. From these lists unanimous votes are omitted, because to insert them seemed unnecessary, and, in fact, they occur only in consequence of a peculiar procedure. No one would, of course, care to insist upon a call of the roll when there was no opposition; and hence the names of the persons voting in such cases would...
Seite 69 - An examination of these contrasted outlines," he says, "shows most strikingly the difference between criminal types, as registered by the mechanical precision of a camera, and as viewed by the imagination of an enthusiastic, but uncritical, observer.
Seite 87 - Nevertheless, the shift is most likely to have taken place within the central quartiles of the distribution where opinion most nearly approaches indifference. Subsequent events usually prove in such a case that the changes of opinion were not profound or thoroughgoing. Opinions lightly held are easily changed. Thus the fickleness of public opinion that is so frequently observed may be a phenomenon representing the comparative indifference of the central portions of the distribution of opinion. In...
Seite 67 - The existence of common stereotypes concerning the appearance of various classes of persons (senators, bootleggers, etc.) is clearly indicated. 2. The stereotypes found among students and grange members were similar, but there appeared to be a somewhat greater uniformity among the latter. 3. Estimates of intelligence and craftiness, presumably based upon the features portrayed, are in reality influenced by the supposed identity of the portrait — that is, by the stereotype of the supposed occupational...