1. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
PAF 101 Module 2, Lecture 7
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

2. Class Agenda Announcements Exercise 2.5 Clarification
Introduction to Chapter 4
Designing a Survey
Competition Workshop Topic
Assignment for Next Class

3. Community Service
Prospective Community Service to your TA due Friday 2/17 at 12:45
Hanna Nichols with any questions:
Note: It is NOT okay to miss class to do Community Service! You will LOSE 5 points.

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8. Competition Points Winners Losers As of 02/15/2017 Group # Total 17 1614 12 9 10 8 2 7 5 13 18 4 6 15 1 3 11
Winners
Losers
As of 02/15/2017

9. Fireside Chat- Featuring Julia

10. Exercise 2.5 Clarification
If 2010 Census data is available, use that on your exercise.
If 2010 data is NOT available, use the most recent time period of data that Quick Facts provides for that category.

11. Finding and Serving Clients
Must be a Player
Look at Triangle
Players
2 General and national
3 state and local for client- also non-profit
-Ask for examples
-Say how player could use surveys to find out about other players, policy, or society
Societal
Problems
Public
Policy

12. Chapter 4 Exercises
Take out your copy of the exercises and follow along

13. The Chancellor wants to know if dog shit is a problem on the QUAD
Note:
Introduction to Chancellor’s problem with dog shit
CENSORED

14. EX. 4.1A Key Concepts of Sampling
Target Population:
The total specifically defined set of people about whom you want to gather information.
Sampling Frame:
A subset of the population to be surveyed
Sample—those who respond
Random:
Each member of the target population has an equal chance of being in the sample
Use the Maxwell Manual!
Students need to understand this better

15. EX. 4.1B Player Answers Player MUST BE real
Answers can be hypothetical
Include the APA citation for “personal communication” whether real or hypothetical
Watch out for attitudinal vs. factual

16. Mail or Email Phone Face-to-Face EX. 4.2 Methods of Contact Coplin
Ask for Pros and Cons of each
Face-to-Face

17. EX. 4.2B Is Your Sample Good? Target Population Sample 1800 53 183 54
Number
Percent
(%)
Lower Division
1800 53
183 54
Upper
Division
1600 47
155 46
Total
3400
100
338
Why is this a good variable to check representativeness of the sample.
Variable is Upper vs. Lower divisions

18. EX. 4.3 Estimating Sample Size
Required contacts = Desired sample size Expected response rate
For example, if you desire a sample size of 250, and you expect a response rate of 40%, the following formula shows that you would need to contact 625 individuals:
Stress the formula more and that students must estimate and justify the response
625 =
Maxwell Manual pg

19. Do NOT select a sample size of more than 2500 people!
EX 4.3 Sample Size Hint
Do NOT select a sample size of more than 2500 people!

20. EX. 4.4 Types of Questions
Open
vs.
Closed
Ask for an example

21. Two Closed Choice Questions
Attitudinal
Factual

22. Topic for Workshop on Friday
Meet in competition groups (same as TPE location)
Kent Syverud is the client
Design a survey to gather information on what SU undergraduates think about Syverud as a Chancellor of SU

23. Competition on Friday 2/17
Meet in Competition Groups
Complete exercise 4.1 A and B on the competition topic.
Copy these exercises to a separate page and complete it on the topic mentioned in the next slide.
Type and print out for Friday or lose 5 points.

24. By Friday
Please complete exercises 4.1 A and 4.1 B from Module 2 on the following topic:
The Chancellor of Syracuse University, Kent Syverud, asked for the design of a survey to assess what undergraduates think of his leadership on campus.

25. For Next Class http://paf101.expressions.syr.edu
Bring in completed printout of 4.1A and 4.1B or lose 5 points
Review Chapter 4
Read Exercises to work on in the competition
Bring in the Maxwell Manual
Meet in the same place you did for the TPE!
Prospective community service due by 12:45.