Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences
eBook - ePub

Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Designing Online Experiments for the Social Sciences

About this book

This book guides you through designing and implementing an online experiment in social science research in a clear and straightforward manner. 

At an approachable pace, it covers foundational principles of good experimental design before setting out best practice for how to design and conduct web experiments, taking into account the specific methodological challenges of working online with digital tools. The book:

  • Offers practical advice for approaching every stage of the research process
  • Breaks real-world examples into easy to follow steps
  • Focuses on how to make good decisions and choose the right design for your research project

This pragmatic guide helps beginner researchers get started with online experiments confidently. It is supported by online resources such as case studies which allow you to see the concepts in practice, and weblinks to tools and resources to aid you.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of contents
  6. Illustration List
  7. Online Resources
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. About the Author
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Online Population-Based Survey Experiments
  13. 2 The Ethics of Online Experiments
  14. 3 Causal Inferences and Experiments
  15. 4 Sampling for Population-Based Survey Experiments
  16. 5 Building Your Experiment
  17. 6 Dealing With Missing Data and Non-Compliance
  18. 7 Execution of Population-Based Survey Experiments: Case Studies
  19. 8 The Value of Population-Based Survey Experiments for Social Scientific Research
  20. References
  21. Index