Describing Data

Find two peer-reviewed sociological articles on a sociological topic of interest that use descriptive statistics covered in this course (frequencies, crosstabulations, measures of central tendency and variability, probability or the normal distribution).

For each article:

• Describe the research context (topic, question, purpose)
• Describe the data (For example, survey, census, etc.) and variables used
• Identify the descriptive statistics presented (including visuals)
• Evaluate how effectively they summarize the data.

Focus only on describing data, not hypothesis testing or causal inference.