Thank you for being patient waiting for feed back on your survey
proposals.  They took even longer than I thought on Sunday!
 
Because it took so long for me to get these comments to you, I am
postponing the due date for the next team assignment:
  
  * Assignment I.2 will be due by Midnight Thursday Feb 4.

  * Please EMAIL to brian@stat.cmu.edu a single file with your group's
    assignment for I.2.  pdf much preferred, msword acceptable.

  * Please use EMAIL and not PAPER.

For I.1 I have attached to this email some general comments in the
areas that I will grade I.2 on:

  (a) Interesting research question? Doable?  Each team member
      provides one piece of previous research or results on this
      question?
  (b) What population do you want to make inferences about? (TARGET
     POPULATION) 
  (c) What population will you sample?  (SAMPLING FRAME) Is this
      different from (b)?
  (d) How do you plan to carry out the survey & why? (MODE OF DATA
      COLLECTION)
  (e) What variables will you measure?
  (f) Sample questions for off-campus project? 

These are expanded versions of the six items from page 4 of the longer
project description, but they cover the same material as the seven
items ABCDEFG of the two-page outline.

please submit complete proposals for both projects, not just "target
pop / sampling frame / mode of data collection".  

For I.1 I am giving everyone 100 points.  For I.2 I will assign points
for each part (max of approx 8 points per part, for each survey).

My comments on the attached sheet will sometimes seem somewhat harsh.
I am sorry for that, but I want to make sure that each of you are
thinking carefully enough about your projects that you will have two
*interesting*, *doable* survey proposals (having only one is not
enough, both proposal must look interesting and doable).  Many of you
have done some good work and thinking already, but all of you can
stand to think more carefully about your propsoals.

I am giving 100 pts to everyone on I.1 since I left it very open-ended
how to develop your proposals (and also because of the confusion
between the two project outlines).  I am assigning points on I.2,
because with the attached notes you should have a clearer idea of what
I am looking for.

Please revise your *whole proposals* for I.2, using the comments I
have given you in the attached email as a guide.  Remember that you
have only 3 pages to work with.

Some teams will have only a little work to do, to get a good grade on
I.2.  

Some teams have a lot of work to do, just to get a passing grade on
I.2.  You cannot go on to the next part of the project until you pass
I.2.

REMEMBER: email me (brian@stat.cmu.edu) your revised written proposals
for I.2.

thanks; see you in class

-BJ