Comments on: Civic engagement quick hits http://www.engagedyouth.org/2008/09/04/civic-engagement-quick-hits/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Eszter Hargittai http://www.engagedyouth.org/2008/09/04/civic-engagement-quick-hits/#comment-266 Eszter Hargittai Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:36:47 +0000 http://www.engagedyouth.org/2008/09/04/civic-engagement-quick-hits/#comment-266 Based on the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/other/2008/09/annual-student-activism-roundup.html" rel="nofollow">little information</a> Mother Jones tells us about the methods of the survey (presumably a self-selected group of readers of Mother Jones), it is extremely hard to know to what extent one can generalize anything from these findings. Perhaps the point isn't generalization, I just wanted to caution against that. It's curious that they have decided to break down the responses by student vs non-student, but not give any more detail about non-students (that is, are these people the same age as students or are we talking about people at completely different points during their life course?). Based on the little information Mother Jones tells us about the methods of the survey (presumably a self-selected group of readers of Mother Jones), it is extremely hard to know to what extent one can generalize anything from these findings. Perhaps the point isn’t generalization, I just wanted to caution against that.

It’s curious that they have decided to break down the responses by student vs non-student, but not give any more detail about non-students (that is, are these people the same age as students or are we talking about people at completely different points during their life course?).

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