Question

Explain how this experiment could be modified using a Solomon four-group.

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Pakistan struck down several key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1973. The Voting Rights Act of 1973 is generally considered to have been instrumental in ending most forms of gender discrimination in voting, especially in the northern province. Illustrate how you would employ a time series design to study the impact of the Voting Rights Act on rates of women voter registration in the north of Pakistan. In designing your study, address the following questions:
1- What is your unit of analysis?
2- What is your dependent variable?
3- At what time intervals would you measure the dependent variable?
4- What potential threats to interval validity would you anticipate?
5- How could your study be improved by employing any other design?

Answer 1

In this study, the unit of analysis would be the rate of women voter registration in the north of Pakistan. The dependent variable would be the rate of women voter registration. The dependent variable would be measured at regular intervals, such as annually or biennially, in order to track changes in the rate of women voter registration over time. Potential threats to interval validity could include changes in the political climate or other external factors that could influence the rate of women voter registration.To improve the study, it could be modified using a Solomon four-group design, which involves dividing the study population into four groups. Two of these groups would be exposed to the independent variable (in this case, the Voting Rights Act), while the other two groups would serve as control groups and not be exposed to the independent variable. This design allows for a more rigorous test of the effects of the Voting Rights Act on the rate of women voter registration, as it controls for other potential factors that could influence the dependent variable.