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Assessment |
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Research Question
(Clear, unambiguous) |
"[T]his research will find that whether a
city worth to invest a bigger and better stadium for their professional
team." Whether it is "worth it" is probably not an ideal
proposition, as "worth" may mean different things to different
people. Presumably the question here
is whether municipal investment in major sports stadiums results in local
economic growth. Even then, we would
need to specify what is local and what is economic growth. |
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Relevant
Literature |
The literature to which
you refer is certainly relevant. More
of what is relevant is likely to be found in journal articles (and sometimes
in news reports). |
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Causal Interpretations (clear, all
parts defined, mechanisms, controls, plausible) |
Well, it is certainly true that the results of
developing a new stadium might be economically positive or negative, but that
is a rather limited causal analysis.
What conditions might determine which of those outcomes is more
likely? |
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Data
(variables, sample, comparison) |
As stated, the data
description is, at best, incomplete.
You need to specify what outcome (dependent variables) you will
examine by what varying causal conditions (independent variables). |
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Research Value |
The general goal of finding if investment in
stadiums is rational makes sense only if the outcome is invariant. It would be more to the point to identify
the conditions that distinguish efforts that proved to serve as an economic
stimulus from those that did not. |
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Overall |
The general idea behind
the study seems fine. The research
design needs some serious thinking. |
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