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Download Our Free Software Below
We have written several useful programs for
our teaching and consulting work.
We offer them to the general public, free of charge.
Read the descriptions by clicking on the links
below.
If you like what you see, click on the program name to download.
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Sociological Insights
(version 2.1.4) --
©1997-2005
-- Windows 9X/NT/etc --
1.76MB self-installing .EXE file |
This program
displays statistical information in an easy-to-use format, designed
for teaching quantitative sociological reasoning. It uses
aggregate data from the 50 U.S. states to teach the principles of
distribution, correlation, and regression. It uses
questionnaire data from the 2000 and 1994 General Social Surveys to
teach distribution and cross-tabulation.
The States
module 289 variables in all.
The Survey module displays 249 variables from the 2000 GSS, plus (as
a separate data set) 113 variables from the 1994 GSS.
Version 2.1
contains 4-way maps, telegraph charts and column distribution
charts, plus standardized cross-tabs, t-tests, and ANOVAs.
In the
various sub-versions (2.1.2; 2.1.3, etc), I have improved screen
displays and instructions and have stomped all known bugs. Please
write me if you have any problems or suggestions.
Freeware.
Download full package
(1.76MB self-installing file) from:
Download updated data files only
(self-extracting zip)
(if unlinked, then there is no update)
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Like "Choosing
Neighbors" (below) his program
is a Schelling model -- in this case one designed to test the
Stark/Finke/Bainbridge/Iannaccone theory of religious markets. You get to chose how many
religions there are, their relative size and attractiveness, etc., and
then see how many people join which one. As one might expect, the
theory's predictions don't exactly work in practice. (See Jim's
working paper posted at
Cool Sociology.)
Freeware.
Download from:
McGuire-Spickard.Com
Download Code Files
(Delphi/Pascal) from McGuire-Spickard.Com
This program
implements Thomas Schelling's mathematical model of residential
segregation. "REDs" and "GREENs" live in the same
neighborhood. You get to chose how many of each live there, and
you get to choose the minimum number of like-color neighbors each wants.
(Many people like living in integrated neighborhoods, but most don't
want to be the only one of their color there.)
The program lets
people move around the neighborhood until their wishes are met.
See what happens when non-racists just don't want to be alone.
Freeware.
Download from:
McGuire-Spickard.Com
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Time
Clock
(version 1.2) -- Windows 9X/NT/etc. -- 138K
.ZIP file
©1998-1999 |
This program tracks the amount of time spent on projects.
There is no limit to the number of projects one can track. The program stores a cumulative log file on disk, which
one can print with a word processor. Freeware.
Download from
McGuire-Spickard.Com
A DOS version
of the States portion of Sociological Insights.
This interactive program displays statistical information
for the 50 United States. It maps 120+ social variables, including such things as crime rates, health and illness
rates, education rates, and the average level of beer consumption. One can correlate any variable with any other,
display the correlations numerically or by scatterplot, and run up to 5-variable regressions to test these correlations
for significance.
Students respond well to this program. Not only does it present
statistics in an easy-to-understand format, but it allows students to test their own hypotheses.
Download from:
(NOTE: the
opening screen says that the program is Shareware. It is now
Freeware.)
A DOS version
of the Survey portion of Sociological Insights.
This interactive program displays 100+ variables from the
1994 General Social Survey -- a yearly survey of about 1500 randomly chosen, non-institutionalized U.S. adults.
Variables include measures of education, social class, health, etc. plus attitudes on key social issues. One can
display data, cross-tabulate two variables, or cross-tabulate two variables while controlling for a third.
Students also respond well to this program -- and for the
same reasons.
Download from:
(NOTE: the
opening screen says that the program is Shareware. It is now
Freeware.)
This drill program helps students learn to read statistical
tables: distributions, scatterplots, regressions, and cross-tabulations (the last with and without control variables).
Download from:
These programs are offered without warranty. I have tested
them thoroughly on several computer systems, however, and they do no damage. If anyone finds bugs, please e-mail
me at spickard@McGuire-Spickard.com. I shall stomp them at the earliest opportunity.
--Jim Spickard
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