INSTRUCTIONS 1
This first additional reading is a short article that Malcolm Gladwell wrote for the New Yorker.Think it offers a really clear reflection on the decisions that underlie index creation, and on how problematic some of those decisions can be. An index is, ultimately, a measurement tool. Building a good index requires you to know what you are measuring and to have clearly and carefully conceptualized the key variables. Think about how his examples of different rankings of cars or law schools amount to different conceptualizations of what “quality” means in these different fields.
READINGS 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NucG4E8IEfE2_njyliHtcG5yQhuGX3JN/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YgGpA-HlnOuVsG8_ZxmRPWF9pV1qCbJo/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MHuiDo6OAo8JjHpI5emUCogU5JM2TNDF/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mc_Il8RVN0HcoNxfr875CSqHcGNJddNW/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19P9JrEFXUwAeKVn8ArZSiQkDcJPB0S-Z/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MWw8RhzTXdd-YAVPeglssegcff1kV1Ac/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EoKMfrZs3Yq1WEIkSAn1W2RfFrFwLgCE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16M5vx0PL5Q_Zdp5R-QPABMZmqK4MVBtJ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UcVoLD92-cnY_SFCFbSXJgsGlhTzFkgv/view?usp=sharing
INSTRUCTIONS 2
This article was published last year by a news outlet called City Monitor. The reporter, Alexandra Kanik, developed an index of “housing security” and assigned each of 84 U.S. metro areas a score.Think it offers a nice example of how indexes are developed and used all the time, particularly in news reporting. This index seems to have a lot to recommend itself, and also some potential drawbacks. While reading the article,think about—and, in Perusall, ask questions about and comment on—the decisions that she made about which variables to include, how the index should be measured, and how data missingness should be addressed. What does she do to validate the index, if anything?
READING/VIDEOS 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L9BfACxueOUAjm-p-eck0cUQOLDiPoxJ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x6x8KmvxD3ujaB4lCJF2N7jSPx0caJ_W/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11PZXAJBB9z_a4kEFfb4BMR21zm7BA3IR/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jgcwMysoJnRYLJnuu_s4IQmnDQsl_WK/view?usp=sharing
Use half of the page for the first part and the other half for the second part. This work should be very brief. If you have any questions,
