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Chapter 1:		How Do We Know What's True?
		Exercise 1.1 Distinguishing Sources of Knowledge
Chapter 2:		Using the Scientific Method and Political Science
		Exercise 2.1 Description and Explanation Exercise 2.2 Thinking Deductively and Inductively
Chapter 3:		Formulating Problems and Hypotheses
		Exercise 3.1 Developing Research Questions and Answers Exercise 3.2 Reformulating Statements Exercise 3.3 Variables and Values Exercise 3.4 Identifying Units of Analysis
Chapter 4:		Building a Bibliography: Determining What is Known
		Exercise 4.1 Getting to Know Your Way Around the Library Exercise 4.2 Evaluating Web Sites
Chapter 5:		Reviewing Previous Research
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Chapter 6:		Assessing Relationships: Association or Causality?
		Exercise 6.1 Independent and Dependent Variables Exercise 6.2 Association and Temporal Order Exercise 6.3 Writing a Null Hypothesis and Considering Alternate Explanations Exercise 6.4 Assessing Causality Exercise 6.5 Association and Empirical Evidence
Chapter 7:		Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Measuring Variables
		Exercise 7.1 Defining Multidimensional Concepts Exercise 7.2 Direct Observables, Indirect Observables and Constructs Exercise 7.3 Distinguishing Levels of Measurement Exercise 7.4 From Conceptual to Operational Hypotheses
Chapter 8:		Organizing and Managing Data
		Exercise 8.1 Reading Data from an SPSS Data File Exercise 8.2 Accessing SPSS and Examining the Data Matrix Exercise 8.3 Setting Up a Data Matrix and Codebook
Chapter 9:		How to Achieve Maximum Representativeness: Sampling
		Exercise 9.1 Selecting a Random and a Systematic Sample Exercise 9.2 Calculating Sample Error and Sample Size
Chapter 10:		Collecting Data Using Surveys
		Exercise 10.1 Writing Survey Questions Exercise 10.2 Improving the Wording of Survey Questions
Chapter 11:		Collecting and Organizing Data from Published Sources
		Exercise 11.1 Identifying Different Types of Variables that Describe Collectivities Exercise 11.2 Collecting, Organizing and Coding Data from the 2000 U.S. Census Exercise 11.3 Analyzing the Content of Newspaper Web Sites
Chapter 12:		Studying only a Few Cases: Intensive Approaches
		Exercise 12.1 Trying to Determine the Effects of Classroom Activity Exercise 12.2 Collecting, Organizing and Coding Data from the 2000 U.S. CensusWriting Q-sort Statements
Chapter 13:		How to Describe and Summarize a Single Variable
		Exercise 13.1 Frequency Distributions for Nominal and Ordinal Variables Exercise 13.2 Frequency Distribution for Ratio Level Data
Chapter 14:		Constructing and Interpreting Bivariate Tables
		Exercise 14.1 Constructing a Percentage Table from Raw Numbers
Chapter 15:		Graphing and Describing Linear Bivariate Relationships
		Exercise 15.1 Constructing a Scatterplot by Hand Exercise 15.2 Constructing a Scatterplot using SPSS Exercise 15.3 Interpreting a Correlation Coefficient
Chapter 16:		Analyzing More Than Two Variables
		Exercise 16.1 Showing the Effects of a Control Variable Exercise 16.2 Creating a Condensed Table from a Three Variable Table
Chapter 17:		Determining the Statistical Significance of Results
		Exercise 17.1 When to Use Tests of Statistical Significance Exercise 17.2 Different Types of Errors Exercise 17.3 One and Two Tailed Tests
Chapter 18:		Reporting the Results of Empirical Political Research: Pulling It All Together
		Exercise 18.1 Evaluating Titles and Abstracts of Research Reports