Methods in Empirical Music Research
DAY 2 PROGRAM
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Homework
- Reading Guide #2: Perttu (2007)
- Reading #2: Perttu (2007)