Quiz 3 Study Guide PDF

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Quiz 3 Study Guide. Given a set of questions to know and includes answers pulled from readings....

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1. What was Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professor, Arthur Schlesinger's, opinion of "The American Soldier"? -

“Denounced what he considered the pretensions of social scientists” Asks rhetorically “does this kind of research yeild anything new? - seems to think it is unnecessary and Calls it “Is a ponderous demonstration in Newspeak of such facts” - he was commenting of the obviousness of it

2. What was Paul Lazarsfeld's "rhetorical ploy" to help readers understand the problem of obviousness? (Compare "Lazarsfeld's Examples" on page 11 with "Lazarsfeld's Examples" on page 13. -

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Lazarfield - Gives and example of a conclusion or finding from this type of research then he write what assumptions (of course because…) ppls minds might use to explain it in order to show obviousness Then he states that each finding is the direct opposite of what was found - and argues “if we had mentioned the actual results of the investigation fist - the reader would have labelled those obvious also” His rhetorical ploy helps prove his point

3. Provide a brief description of Baratz's (1983) study. What was her main finding? -

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She would give two statements that directly contradict each other - then ask them if they would confidently predict these results/ if they were obvious - for the two directly contradicting statements both sets of people said they would certain to predict the results Main finding - these resuls show clearly that reading a resul made that result appear obvious - o matter the result presented - the majority of subkects thought they would have predicted it “Provide evidence against the argument that social research yields only obvious findings”

4. Summarize the author's main point in *one sentence*. (Hint: Look in the first paragraph of the "Where the Issue Stands" section on page 15.) How would you explain this idea in terms your Uncle Bob would understand? The feeling that a research result is obvious is untrustworthy because people tend to regard obvious almost any reasonable statement made about human behavior....