Study Questions for Little, Chapter 8

1. What is the author's main point?
2. How can statistics be explanatory?
3. What are some of the pitfalls of data and data analysis?
4. What is the difference between correlation and regression?
5. How does one interpret the results of each?
6. How can statistics be used deductively? Inductively?
7. What are the comparative advanatages of statistical studies and case studies?
8. How does one rule out spurious correlation?
9. Why does any of this matter to political scientists?

Things to look for/keep in mind for future readings:

• what statistics can and cannot do
• regression analysis

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