Seminar 9: Critiquing Quantitative Research

Seminar 7 Slides

Reading:

• Bueno de Mesquita, E. and Fowler, A. (2021) Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

  • Read pp. 94—156: (1) Chapter 15: Turn Statistics into Substance and (2) Chapter 16: Measure Your Mission, and (3) Chapter 17: On the Limits of Quantification.

• Farrington, D.P. (2003) ‘Methodological quality standards for evaluation research’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 587(1): 49-68. (A very influential set of criteria for what constitutes good evaluation in relation to quantitative research.)

• Pratt, T. C. (2016) ‘Theory testing in criminology’, in A. Piquero (ed.) The Handbook of Criminological Theory, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 37–49.

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