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Operational study of an occasional paper on the Kennedy-Nixon television debates

The Psychological RecordPublished 1 October 1964
William Stephenson
Citations7
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SJR score0.52
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Abstract

The paper proposes that discussions and symposia can be modelled along Q-method lines. The body of discussion, logically, is a set of innumerable hypotheses; these can be represented in a Q-sample of opinion-statements. Overall viewpoints under discussion are defined by Q-sorts. Applied to an occasional paper concerning the Kennedy-Nixon television debates of 1960, the evidence is strong as to the partisanship of political faiths amongst so-called ‘experts’ in political science as much as amongst ordinary members of the public.

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