SSCI期刊投稿与研究方法.pptVIP

Methods 9 Control variables Applicant Physical Attractiveness, Sex, Age, and Conscientiousness Interviewer Experience, Training, Sex, Age, and Pre-interview Impression (?=.61) Comments and Reply - 1 Sample The applicants participated in an average of 6.09 interviews in past years. Does this mean that they interviewed 6 times annually? Or does this mean…? Comments and Reply - 2 Research Design - control variable Including nine control variables certainly helps eliminate alternative explanations. At the same time, it cuts into the ability of your analyses to detect effects with small sample sizes. You may want to consider collecting additional data. To your credit, you used a lot of control variables here. However, in some sense, I think you used too many….Please drop…. (Editor opinion) Comments and Reply - 2 Research Design Would you expect industry related differences to influence your results? If so, then you should control for industry. Similar differences may be found across organizations, although controlling for such differences becomes more troublesome. Comments and Reply - 2 Research Design In this study we created two dummy variables, with service industry as the referent category. Note that we DID NOT include “firm” as a control variable. Given the small sample size in our study, adding 24 firm variables to the regression would greatly reduce the statistical power of our statistical analyses (see Cohen Cohen, 1983), thus it may be inappropriate to do so. Comments and Reply - 2 Research Design (2nd comments) I agree that it will take up too many degrees of freedom to include a dummy variable for each organization. However, you might acknowledge in the limitations that you have multiple data points that are linked to the same organization and the same interviewer, and discuss how that might influence your analysis. Comments and Reply - 2 Research Design (2nd reply) “…multiple data points were linked to the same interviewer and the