Research Design Course

Meeting 3

Schedule for today

• Two brief presentations
• Discussion in small groups
  • 20 minutes per session
  • Match with different participants in each session
• Roundtable discussion
• Suggestions for the next one-pager

What we see and what we think

• internal validity
  • idea
  • our measure
  • our data
• external validity
• think about democratic backsliding and the rule of law

Getting it right

• Reliability – a measurement strategy that is:
  • dependable
  • replicable
  • consistent
• the trade off between reliability and validity
• think about studies of discrimination 

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