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== Empirical Paper Questions == Let's take a look at this (very dated!) paper which I published in graduate school: : Shaw, Aaron and Yochai Benkler. 2012. A tale of two blogospheres: Discursive practices on the left and right. ''American Behavioral Scientist''. 56(4): 459-487. [[https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0002764211433793 available via NU libraries]] Read enough of the paper to get a sense for what it's about and to answer the questions below. Many of them refer to the top part of Table 5 (about the authorship of posts). Feel free to ignore all the other stuff that's not relevant. : '''EQ1.''' Identify (a) the population of interest and (b) the sample used in the study. : '''EQ2.''' Given that a blog in the dataset has a left perspective, what is the probability that it is "solo" authored? : '''EQ3.''' Given that a blog in the dataset is a "large-scale collaboration", what is the probability that it has a right perspective? : '''EQ4.''' In substantive terms, do these probabilities provide evidence that left wing blogs are more or less collaborative? Identify a reason to support your answer as well as reason to be skeptical. : '''EQ5.''' Given your answers to EQ1 and EQ4, do you think that your conclusion genereralizes from the sample to the population? Why or why not?
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