According to Gerber and Green's (2012) field experiments on voter mobilisation, which contact method was most effective at increasing turnout?
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Which of the following best describes why the 1936 *Literary Digest* poll failed to predict the US presidential election result?
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What does R-squared measure in a regression table?
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Which of the following is an example of a double-barreled survey question?
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What was the central finding of the Open Science Collaboration's (2015) replication project in psychology?
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DellaVigna and Linos (2022) re-evaluated the nudge literature using interventions run by US nudge units. What did they find?
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What does the ceteris paribus clause in a regression coefficient interpretation mean, and what is its key limitation?
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Explain what social desirability bias is in survey research and give one example from the topic.
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What three things does quantification do that other methods cannot, according to the topic introduction?
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Drawing on at least four specific studies or methodological concepts from this topic, evaluate the claim that quantitative sociology is most valuable not for producing certainty but for producing disciplined estimates of how big social phenomena are and for whom they occur.
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In Pager's (2003) Milwaukee audit study, which comparison most starkly illustrated the compounding effects of race and criminal record?
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Why does random assignment in an experiment allow researchers to establish causation in a way that observational data cannot, and what does this imply about the range of sociological questions experiments can address?