University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course:
15.501/516 | Accounting
Academic year:

2023
Views:

269

Pages:

20
Author:

Abril Bautista

Recitation #1 What are good questions for your project? What are good questions? • Applied or theory ? – Applied meaning you are trying to estimate particular parameters • Examples: Politeness, opening doors, etc. – Theory meaning you are trying to understand a directional effect • Examples: Politeness, opening doors, etc. What are good questions? • Applied or theory? – Applied is more specific, theory is more general • Engineering vs. Science – “There is nothing more practical than a good theory” • Kurt Levin » • At what stage of product development is each more appropriate? • When is represented sampling more important? • When is exact implementation more important? What are good questions? • Relevant is a good criteria – But relevant to who? – • “Big” is a good criteria • • More general (theoretical) questions are likely to be “larger” & more relevant Ethnics in research • There have been a lot of cases of abuse – Medical cases where they gave people different diseases. – Shaking basic beliefs – Philip Zimbardo’s jail experiment – Stanley Milgram’s Electrical shocking experiment • The Human subject review board COUHES is the local branch that is in charge of ethical behavior toward subjects Exercise in generating ideas • In small groups propose questions you are interested in finding the answers for. – • Practice “armchair” psychology – Think of your own weird behavior (and on that of the people around you). – Observe, introspect • Also name 3 “bad” (useless) thins to test A few interesting projects III • Example: Surveys (SWB) – How happy are you with your life? • One year after winning a lottery • One year after a bad injury • Control group – People expect large differences but the differences are small A few interesting projects IV • Example: inferences – How often do you masturbate? – – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 or more – A day / A year • After that, how happy are you with your love life? – measurement problems SWB • SWB = Subjective Well Being • This is a measure of psychological “happiness.” – Has many important policy implications (how to invest in environment, education, etc) – And also many measurement problems • • Together we will do a cross-religion research on SWB Task #1 Religion project: “The value of religion” • Across different relegious • organisations Before the worship and after • Between subjetcs Steps • Pick an organization from the list (& mark it) • Print surveys • Find out when is their “service.” • Go there 1.5 hours before • Ask 10 people the questions (before) • Wait (and listen) • Ask people the questions (after) • Input the data into excel Samples.... Data Entry Writing center