Publication Date
7-2016
Abstract
To find the relation between two concepts, social scientists traditionally look for correlations between the numerical quantities describing these concepts. Sometimes this help, but sometimes, while we are clear that there is a relation, statistical analysis does not show any correlation. Charles Ragin has shown that often, in such situations, we can find statistically significant correlation between the degrees to which experts estimate the corresponding concepts to be applicable to given situations. In this paper, we provide a simple explanation for this empirical success.
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-16-52