Describe the kinds of people you got into your sample, given your procedures. Be sure to discuss any differences among team members in this.

Paper Outline
1. Title page
Title of report, author(s), date. Put partner’s name in parentheses at the bottom of the page if you worked with someone but wrote reports separately.
2. Body of paper
1.Introduction. Write a paragraph stating your research question and why it is worth researching. On this assignment, you will usually want to talk about why your dependent variable is interesting to you. In the introduction you should also describe your method survey or breaching experiment and what specifically you did.
2.Methods of research To aid grading, number each section of this discussion as it is numbered here.
A.Sampling
a.Describe your sampling procedures including when, where, and how you selected your subjects. Although rigorous sampling is not required, try to think analytically about the coverage and biases of your sample. Describe the kinds of people you got into your sample, given your procedures. Be sure to discuss any differences among team members in this.
b.Tell the reader in a couple of sentences what to think about the external validity of this paper. External validity relates to how well your sample represents the population of interest. For example, how generalizable are your results? We know you do not have a probability sample, so strictly speaking, your external validity is low. But less strictly speaking, do you feel that you probably have a good representation of the population of interest, or do you feel there are clear biases? Explain a little. Who did you actually speak to? Who were you interested in measuring?
c.Evaluation: why you think your sampling was good, given your resources and limitations, or what you now believe should have been done differently. Please note, this evaluation is in terms of what was actually possible in this assignment, and is not about the standards you believe professionals should adhere to.
B.Independent Variables.
a.Most of these variables are simple and unproblematic. Just list them, noting anything that would not be obvious. (Example: the categories of sex are obvious, but the categories of religion are not, so you should say which you used.) If you have a more complicated independent variable, state the question(s) you used to measure it, and anything you did in the way of recoding or forming an index. See instructions for dependent variable for information about how to write about an index.
b.Either assure me that there were no problems in these, or describe any problems that turned up.
c.Briefly evaluate your measures, stating any changes that should be made. (Note: relation to dependent variable goes elsewhere, as does discussion of wishing you had included other variables. This is just evaluation of the measures of the independent variables.)

1.Results
A.Talk to me about the overall picture of your items. Which ones worked well? Which ones didnt? Why? Talk about your sample, your questionnaire/interview, and perhaps how the two interacted.
B.Include the data I asked for in the project analysis instructions document. In other words your DV index scores, your graphs by IV, or your codes if you did an interview project and a sample of how you coded field notes or interview transcripts.
C.Evaluate your hypothesis. This is where you present the results of your DV index scores / breaching experiment reactions (see below) and how they differed based on independent variable. You will have graphs per the analysis instructions to refer to here. Did your data support your hypothesis? Did men vs. women have different levels of the DV index, for example? You are not doing statistical analysis here, but just give me some idea you understand how different the attitudes/behavior you were interested in (DV) varied by independent variable of interest.