Author: Allan AdlerAllan Adler Date: Dec 23, 2006 17:06
Allan Adler nestle.csail.mit.edu> writes:
> I don't know enough about the standards of research in social sciences
> and about statistics to know how to evaluate their procedures. I understand
> that they were making the best use of the resources available to them but
> whether that is good enough is another matter. Happily, I bought a book
> at a library book sale yesterday for a buck, entitled, "Research Methods
> for Social Work", by Allen Rubin and Earl Babbie, 4th ed. (Wadsorth/Thompson
> Learning, Belmont, CA, 2001) and now I have an excuse to start reading it.
I've started reading the book of Rubin and Babbie and it has already answered
some questions. Around page 449 is a discussion of Durkheim's classical study
of suicide based on other people's statistics that had already been published.
I'll post a synopsis of what I get out of it as soon as I've read a little
more of it.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler zurich.csail.mit.edu>
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