HW #1
1.
a. Death and Penalty : 5223 hits
Death Penalty : 4881 hits
b. “Death Penalty” 4881 hits
c. the words appear separately in the text, as well as adjacent and when in the title mainly adjacent.
d. By placing dp in quotes you get the words death and penalty together.
2.
a. Death and penalty = 5223 hits
b. Death or penalty = 240177 hits
c. death penalty = 4881 hits
d. death penalty and new york state =357 hits
e. death penalty and not new york state = 0 hits
f. death penalty or capital punishment = 7084
g. death penalty and capital punishment = 3010
HW #1
March 25, 2007 · 4 Comments
Categories: Assignment 1
4 responses so far ↓
Richard Glass // April 10, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Do you really think that part e, ‘death penalty’ and not “New York State” is really empty / no articles?
Check the help.
lr0631 // April 13, 2007 at 1:54 am
Hi Dr. Glass,
s /\ ~ n
death penalty and not New York State, is not giving me any hits, no matter where I place the parentheses?
I tried it without the “and” (death penalty, not NYS), and received 4540 hits??
Richard Glass // April 13, 2007 at 6:58 am
Yes, what you discovered it that it is an error in some databases whenever you put two connectors together. s AND NOT n makes perfect sense both verbally and logically (math) but the database does not like it. If you read the HELP screen, it tells you that. Try the following:
s ~n (omit the AND) and try ~n /\ s (commutative).
lr0631 // April 18, 2007 at 1:06 am
Yep, I tried the s(death penalty), ~( NYS) on the academic search premier database, and received 4,540 hits.
When I tried the ~n (not NYS) ^ (and) s (death penalty), when typed in as such, it does not give me any hits either.
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