Facing the Hydra: Ad vancing Research Methods in the Social Sciences
My thesis focuses on improving methods in social science research. I was motiva ted to work on this after completing my first experiment, where I enc ountered several methodological problems for which the current litera ture did not have ready solutions.
First, I was curious t o investigate the use of incentives to create real stakes for the cho ices participants make in experiments, and the effect of these real s takes on experimental results. Second, I wanted to establish whether it is important to use equivalence testing methods to test whether nu ll results are sufficiently precise. Additionally, I investigated whe ther businesses that respond to business surveys are meaningfully dif ferent from those that do not.
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DESCRIPTION: Facing the Hydra: Advancing Research Methods in the Socia l Sciences My thesis focuses on improving methods in social science r esearch. I was motivated to work on this after completing my first ex periment, where I encountered several methodological problems for whi ch the current literature did not have ready solutions. First, I was curious to investigate the use of incentives to create real stak es for the choices participants make in experiments, and the effect o f these real stakes on experimental results. Second, I wanted to esta blish whether it is important to use equivalence testing methods to t est whether null results are sufficiently precise. Additionally, I in vestigated whether businesses that respond to business surveys are me aningfully different from those that do not.More information on the < a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/9bbc41a4-fd7b-4b5a-9cbb-fe78b4e 91da3">thesis. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR