http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/16/data-sources/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:30:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/16/data-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-169087 Eszter Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:20:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=5035#comment-169087 John, the WLS follow-up data do contain some information about Internet uses, that's what I'm working on. I may not be understanding your comment though. I'll have to blog about the WLS in more detail sometime. John, the WLS follow-up data do contain some information about Internet uses, that’s what I’m working on. I may not be understanding your comment though. I’ll have to blog about the WLS in more detail sometime.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/16/data-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-168949 greensmile Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:19:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=5035#comment-168949 Ezter, those are interesting. being on line makes the "social explorer" very valuable. I don't often have the sort of questions these sources answer...but on the other hand I should read them to see what sort of questions they prompt. I lost 3 days of blogging to research terror incident data before I found the Rand data base had filters and query tools but even that took a tediuos bit of digging to get my graph. Ezter, those are interesting. being on line makes the “social explorer” very valuable. I don’t often have the sort of questions these sources answer…but on the other hand I should read them to see what sort of questions they prompt.
I lost 3 days of blogging to research terror incident data before I found the Rand data base had filters and query tools but even that took a tediuos bit of digging to get my graph.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/16/data-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-168816 JohnLopresti Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:28:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=5035#comment-168816 Looking away from the gaps in datagathering both in a time sense and in a societal contextual sense, the WLS'57 should be a useful tool if complemented with other instruments and if applied narrowly to illuminate the most central topics in which it is interested. It appeared to me that it looked at social safety nets but shunned the non-nuclear family; and, though it acknowledges unconventional living arrangements, at least as far as the printed questions extend, it skips looking at matters such as trial marriages, though the '57 generation was a smidgeon early for much of the social change that occurred in the substrate civilization over the years the study spans. Effectively the entire study concluded before the internet existed, which is another drawback; and no interviews were conducted during the go-go years of the late 90s when entrepreneurial spirit and affluence seemed to abound in our nation and other parts of the first world; though emphasizing highschool graduation as it does, the project obviously is looking at potential material for recruitment to the university rather than other kinds of educational experience, though there may be sorts to extract data on a set of individuals such as grad school attendees and research assistants in post grad settings. Virtually all of the males arrived at adulthood in the conscriptive military obligation world, yet were gap dwellers in the sense their peers missed wartime involvement; too young for Korea, and by the time the US was defoliating the Mekong in 1968 the study group males were too old for the wholesale draft of the late 1960s; I expect many of them helped the war in southeast Asia escalate in its early years. I appreciated the self consciousness the study exhibited in defining its sample population's race and ancestry. It would be wonderful if the interview reports are ample, extending beyond the radio-button checkbox profile the website shows. Since so much occurred in the US at the time these folks were leaving high school I would wonder what kinds of cars they drove; whether they thought becoming a poet was a realistic aspiration; how closely their parents kept informed about their whereabouts and goings-on; and whether they opted for college in one of the coastal meccas where scions of the effete literati attended university. There are so many excellent liberal arts colleges in middle America, there might have been little incentive for most in the group to venture to coastlands, but deep changes in society were occurring when they were in their twenties, trends which were very prominently observable in progressive coastal urban areas, which were fairly nascent or pregerminal in middle America then. I want to look at the pilot link you provided, as well. UW has a rich history in the intellectual world. Looking away from the gaps in datagathering both in a time sense and in a societal contextual sense, the WLS’57 should be a useful tool if complemented with other instruments and if applied narrowly to illuminate the most central topics in which it is interested. It appeared to me that it looked at social safety nets but shunned the non-nuclear family; and, though it acknowledges unconventional living arrangements, at least as far as the printed questions extend, it skips looking at matters such as trial marriages, though the ‘57 generation was a smidgeon early for much of the social change that occurred in the substrate civilization over the years the study spans. Effectively the entire study concluded before the internet existed, which is another drawback; and no interviews were conducted during the go-go years of the late 90s when entrepreneurial spirit and affluence seemed to abound in our nation and other parts of the first world; though emphasizing highschool graduation as it does, the project obviously is looking at potential material for recruitment to the university rather than other kinds of educational experience, though there may be sorts to extract data on a set of individuals such as grad school attendees and research assistants in post grad settings. Virtually all of the males arrived at adulthood in the conscriptive military obligation world, yet were gap dwellers in the sense their peers missed wartime involvement; too young for Korea, and by the time the US was defoliating the Mekong in 1968 the study group males were too old for the wholesale draft of the late 1960s; I expect many of them helped the war in southeast Asia escalate in its early years. I appreciated the self consciousness the study exhibited in defining its sample population’s race and ancestry. It would be wonderful if the interview reports are ample, extending beyond the radio-button checkbox profile the website shows. Since so much occurred in the US at the time these folks were leaving high school I would wonder what kinds of cars they drove; whether they thought becoming a poet was a realistic aspiration; how closely their parents kept informed about their whereabouts and goings-on; and whether they opted for college in one of the coastal meccas where scions of the effete literati attended university. There are so many excellent liberal arts colleges in middle America, there might have been little incentive for most in the group to venture to coastlands, but deep changes in society were occurring when they were in their twenties, trends which were very prominently observable in progressive coastal urban areas, which were fairly nascent or pregerminal in middle America then. I want to look at the pilot link you provided, as well. UW has a rich history in the intellectual world.

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