Week Six:  Scales, Indexes and Typologies. 

Chat Room Discussions:  Sunday at 8 and Tuesday at 9:15.  Chat room attendance is voluntary. 

To pose a question for Ted Goertzel or Ron Passarella, use the Discussion List for Questions link.  Put your question in "Questions" so others can also see the answer.  This is less chaotic than chat where your question may be lost.


Assignments -  There will be three tries on this week's Quizzes and Exercises.   However, you must use each try before it closes.  Your highest score on any of the tries will count.  No excuses or extensions will be accepted for anyone who misses any of the tries.  Anyone who waits for the Last Chance on a quiz or exercise.is assuming the risk of computer failure, illness, accident, funeral, wedding, divorce, jury duty, court appearance, hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or early onset Alzheimers.  There is only one chance on each try, if you wait until the last day, you get only one chance on the quiz or exercise.  All three copies of each quizz are the same, you don't have to keep taking them if you are satisfied with your score on the first or second try.
  1. Due by 5 p.m. Thursday October 16.  Quiz on Indexes, Scales and Typologies:  Early Bird Special. 
  2. Due by 5 p.m. Friday October 17:  Ayers Exercise Early Bird Special
  3. Due by 5 p.m. Saturday, October 18.  Quiz on Indexes, Scales and Typologies:   Saturday Special
  4. Due by 5 p.m. Sunday, October 19:  Ayers Exercise Sunday Special
  5. Due by 10 a.m. on Monday, October 20.  Quiz on Indexes, Scales and Typologies: Last Chance. 
  6. Due by 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22.  Ayers Exercise Last Chance


Reading and Course Materials: 
  1. Babbie, Chapter Six:  Indexes, Scales and Typologies. 
  2. Powerpoints on Scales, Indexes and Typologies.  These are in Sakai/Resources/Week Six.  I recommend you use the Narrated version which has an audio explanation of this week's material.  It is a large file.  There is also a non-narrated version which is a smaller download.  If anyone has trouble with powerpoint, there is also a non-narrated version on Google Documents. 
  3. A separate Powerpoint illustrates the material with the example of an abortion attitudes scale.  There are narrated and non-narrated versions in Sakai/Resources/Week Six.   There is also a non-narrated version on Google Documents.
  4. Page 171 in Ayers has a good discussion of the difference betwen an index and a scale.  He shows how to construct an index and then various kinds of scales.  We will deal only with index construction, which is covered in Part I of the exercise on pages 185-198.  This week' Ayers exercise is from pages 185-197 - the first part of Chapter Seven covering indexes.