Methods in Empirical Music Research


DAY 2 PROGRAM


  1. Review and Elaborations
    • Review slogans (first 16)
    • Multiple operationalizations
    • Group Task #7: From question to theory to conjecture to hypothesis to protocol
    • Formal observation: The taxi protocol
    • The Experiment
    • The Correlational Study
    • Correlation and causation
    • The third variable problem
  2. Sampling
    • Sampling
    • Group Task #8: Sampling Approaches
    • WEIRD sampling
    • Data Independence
    • Biased Sampling: The Case of Status Thymicolymphaticus
    • Group Task #9: Sampling Issues; Discussion
    • Group Task #10: What is Random?
    • Homework review: Review questions and answers for Lancashire & Hirst (2009)
    • Sample Size: Law of Big Numbers
    • Sample Size: Law of Small Numbers
    • Effect Size
    • Regression-to-the-Mean
    • Review (first 19) slogans
    • Group Task #11: Are dynamics asymmetrical?
  3. Behavioral Data
    • Dependent and independent measures
    • Types of behaviors
    • Implicit vs. explicit responses
    • Reactivity
    • Demand characteristics
    • Measurement scales
    • Group Task #12: What kind of measurement scale?
    • Designing questionnaires
    • Group Task #13: Questionnaire Design
    • Review (first 20) slogans
  4. Homework
    • Reading Guide #2: Perttu (2007)
    • Reading #2: Perttu (2007)