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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:25:56 PST
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- From: Stephanie Fishkin <fishkin@SCF.USC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: SES Measure for Kids
- In-Reply-To: <9301262001.AA20361@aludra.usc.edu>; from "Rick Adams" at Jan 26,
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- Rick--
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- Very thought provoking post.
- We have asked kids in the past to tell us how much their parents make. For
- this we get a 20% "don't know" rate (that's losing a lot of good data there).
- We've also asked them to write in their parent's job, but this too gets a
- lot of lost responses, since many kids know where their parents work
- (e.g., Mc Donald's, Payne-Webber), but they don't know what their parent's
- actual job IS (also, this is a small grant and we don't have the funds
- to cover the time it would take to code all 900 responses by hand...).
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- SF
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- Everyone feels instinctively that
- all the beautiful sentiments in the world
- weigh less than a single lovely action.
- --James Russell Lowell
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- Stephanie Fishkin, Univeristy of Southern California
- fishkin@scf.usc.edu
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