Quantitative Analysis Exercise
1. Suppose you created an index to measure people’s level of
political conservatism (higher score = more conservative). To
validate it, you want to compare the mean index scores for people
who identify as Republicans vs. Democrats. (This is sort of like
what you read about in the article with the love scale; the
hypothesis is that Republicans will score higher on the
conservatism scale than Democrats.) You find that the Republicans
in your sample received scores...