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[...]... 4 .12 4 .13 4 .14 4 .15 4 .16 5 .1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Figure 6 .1 Reports on Aboriginal youth and all youth-crime reports, Feb 19 91 to Jan 19 92 3 News reports on Aboriginal youth-crime and all youth-crime with actual crime data, Feb 19 91 to Jan 19 92 4 From assertions to evidence 23 Operationalization 48 Methods of data collection and personal involvement 65 Checklist for research design 66 Research methods. .. 6.7 6.8 6.9 6 .10 6 .11 Table 6 .12 Table 6 .13 Table 6 .14 Table 6 .15 Table 6 .16 Table 6 .17 Table 6 .18 Table 6 .19 Table 6.20 Table 7 .1 x Percentage of votes within each section 17 2 A 2 Â 2 contingency table 17 3 Data for job performance and EC test 17 4 Computational details for Table 6.7 17 5 Some commonly used values from a set of normal tables 18 2 Frequencies in colour and shape of peas 18 4 Hypothetical... as belonging to `business' or `labour' 10 0 Religious affiliation splits the vote sharply 10 1 One-step model of mass-media influence 10 2 Two-step model of mass-media influence 10 2 Inductive approach 10 4 Deductive approach 10 4 A stem and leaf display of ESP data 11 4 Histogram of hypothetical examination marks 11 5 The anatomy of a boxplot 11 6 Boxplots for two hypothetical variables X and Y 11 7 Side-by-side... Side-by-side boxplots 11 8 Preference for telecommunications carrier 12 1 A different way to display preference for telecommunications carrier 12 1 Scatterplot for data in Table 6 .1 150 FIGURES Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure xii 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6 .10 6 .11 6 .12 6 .13 6 .14 Negative association between two variables 15 0 No relationship... News Reports 25 20 15 10 5 0 FEB ' 91 MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP OCT NOV Date in Months Reports on Aboriginal Youth DEC JAN '92 All Youth-Crime Reports CHART 1. 1 Reports on Aboriginal youth and all youth-crime reports, Feb .19 9 1to Jan .19 92 kind of output in a purely Ql mode We had to show our findings graphically This meant a lot of arduous work, transferring the totals of each cell into an Excel spreadsheet... of News Reports (10 =10 ), No of Apprehension (10 =10 0) and No of Offences Reported to Police (10 =10 00) 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 FEB ' 91 MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT Date in Months OCT NOV DEC JAN '92 Aboriginal Youth-Crime Reports All Youth-Crime Reports All Juvenile Apprehensions Aboriginal Juvenile (Male) Apprehensions Stolen Motor Vehicles, Break and Enter and Burglaries Reported to Police (Crime... Influences of the family on suicide, unmarried men 2 21 Influences of the family on suicide, unmarried women 2 21 Example from Accounting for Tastes: combined music genre preferences by gender 233 Figures Chart 1. 1 Chart 1. 2 Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure 2 .1 3 .1 4 .1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Figure 4.8 Figure 4.9 Figure 4 .10 Figure 4 .11 Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure... relationship between two variables 15 1 Scatterplot showing an outlier 15 1 A curvilinear relationship 15 5 Fitting a line through points on a scatterplot 15 7 Illustrating the concept of residual 15 8 Bar chart of frequency of votes by selection 17 2 Bar chart of raw percentage of votes by selection 17 3 The normal distribution of a normal curve 17 9 The t-distribution 18 3 Durkheim's theoretical hypothesis... successful free throws in two conditions 18 5 Descriptive statistics 18 7 Frequencies relating to marital status and IQ 19 2 Comparison of observed and expected frequencies for Baller's data 19 2 Hypothetical data for speech anxiety scores in two conditions 19 4 All possible permutations of six scores in two conditions 212 Permutation distribution for data in Table 6 .16 213 Suicides in different countries per... (August): pp 5 12 Mickler, Steve and McHoul, Alec (19 98) `Sourcing the wave: Crime reporting, Aboriginal youth and the WA Press, Feb 19 91 Jan 19 92', Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 86 (February): pp 12 2±52 8 O R D E R AT A L L P O I N T S Roe, Phil (19 98) Of Hologrammatology: The Politics of Virtual Writing Unpublished PhD thesis, Murdoch University Sacks, Harvey (19 95) Lectures . Sleuth 10 9 Why Explore Data? 11 0 Plotting Data 11 0 Stem and Leaf Displays 11 0 Example 5 .1: Stem and leaf display 11 1 Histograms 11 3 Boxplots 11 5 Tables, Graphs and Figures 11 8 Does a Picture Always. then?' 10 Knowing What to Research 16 Exploration, Description and Explanation 16 Topics of Research 20 Knowing Whom to Research 21 Units of Analysis 21 Knowing How to Research 22 Literature.