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Patrick,

I suspect that your concern is not uncommon. I'm a newcomer to SNA (I learn 
it and use it, time permitting, in my consulting work), and I'm aware how 
complex SNA can be. It is not easy to "master" it as well as we would like. 
But, without such mastery, we may come up short in selling the methodology 
and in explaining its value to students or clients. We risk looking like 
amateurs.

Michael



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>From: patrick rose <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: patrick rose <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: On Sociograms.
>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:09:22 -0700
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>Dear all,
>
>
>
>I have been examining a network (over time) of high school kids on their 
>drug behaviors.
>
>
>
>One of the reviewers has serious doubts on the usefulness of sociograms 
>included in my paper. S/he argues that the sociograms included did not add 
>any information other than the central position of a few kids and the 
>connectivity of the remaining kids to those central kids and that all the 
>information should be revealed by other statistics (such as those from 
>cross-tabs and univariate/bivariate analysis).
>
>
>
>I included several attributes of kids (their sex, grade, etc.) and the 
>strengths of connections in the sociograms but having difficulty responding 
>to his/her criticisms.
>
>
>
>My questions:
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>1) How can I respond to his/her criticisms?
>
>2) Whar are some general purposes of sociograms and any references that I 
>can take a look at and/or cite.
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>
>
>Any suggestions or advice would be really appreciated.
>
>
>
>Thanks a million in advance,
>
>Pat
>
>
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