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Step 01: Pick your topic - Final paper #1

Open CynthiaLteif opened 2 years ago

CynthiaLteif commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure how are we expected to pick a topic for the paper. What information should we make sure is available when searching for online resources? @JasonSills

JasonSills commented 2 years ago

@CynthiaLteif

I recommend finding a program in a topic that interests you. You could start with the topic and find the various public programs that address the topic. For example, food security is a broad topic with many different programs (SNAP, school breakfast, school lunch, food banks, etc.). It would be ideal to choose a topic with program evaluations published. The specific program doesn't have to be evaluated, but similar programs having been evaluated could give you some insight into what to do and what not to do.

CynthiaLteif commented 2 years ago

Does it have to be a program with one variable? I was thinking something along the line of the article we read for the lab.

"Human wild-life conflict and environmental education, enforcement, and media portrayals: Evaluating a multidisciplinary program to nurture coexistence and conservation"

I found program evaluations for each particular variable but none that combines the three. Would that make sense? @JasonSills

Motivation behind the topic: Stay animals are reaching record high levels in my home country. Excessive cruelty towards animals has risen and it is only in due time that these strays become feral. Furthermore, the country's national animal, the stripped hyena, has been recurrently poisoned, run over and shot on sight; they are threatened by frightened humans and dated myths. Considering the limited studies available on feral animals, I chose the above topic to include both wild, and feral animals.

JasonSills commented 2 years ago

@CynthiaLteif,

How would you combine these? Can one study capture all three? Think about it from a data collection standpoint. If you collect data would you need to have three different datasets? What about the design? Would you be designing three different evaluations, one for each topic? If so, you would need to pick one topic. I suspect this is the case, as "education" and "enforcement" are very different topics and "media portrayals" is different still. Combining all three would only work if you were able to create a latent construct, but I'm not sure this is possible.

CynthiaLteif commented 2 years ago

Okay, understood. I will stick to one topic being education. Thank you.