Required Elements:

• Describe the current global economic conditions and their effect on local macroeconomic indicators for your good or service. 
• Describe the local economy’s stage in the business cycle.
• Describe how current credit market conditions affect your planning or operating decision for your good or service.
• No more than 2100 words (in addition to the 1400 word paper completed in week four, an dditional three pages at most is needed)
• Resource: Business Proposal and Peer Review feedback

Update your Week Four business proposal recommendations using the feedback provided by your peers and facilitator.

Add the following components to your proposal: 

• Recommend appropriate pricing and nonpricing strategies for your new or existing good or service based on the projected economy’s stage in the business cycle and the prevailing projected economic conditions for one or more macroeconomic factors. Explain the evidence that supports these recommendations.
• Describe planning or operating decisions for your new or existing good or service based on the economy’s stage in the business cycle and other economic conditions. 
• Recommend an appropriate course for your new or existing good or service based on the projected credit markets. 
• Describe how current credit market conditions affect your planning or operating decision for your good or service. 
• Recommend business decisions based on estimates of evolving international economic conditions. Be sure to relate decisions to international trade and comparative advantage. 
• Describe how the international economy affects your planning or operating decisions for the good or service.

Correlation and Regression with SPSS

As you work through this SPSS exercise, consider the application of the correlation and regression analysis to your research topic.

To prepare for this Application:

• Review the assigned pages in Chapter 16 in the course text Research Methods in the Social Sciences.
• Review the video program for this week, located in the Learning Resources.
• Review Lessons 31 and 33 in the course text Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh: Analyzing and Understanding Data.
• Access the gss04student_corrected dataset in the Course Information area of the classroom to use for this Application

The assignment:

• Craft up to a one page double-spaced write up of the statistical results (include any additional pages needed for any APA tables or graphs and the SPSS syntax and output) in which you do the following:
• • State the statistical assumptions for this test.
  • Using the data set you have selected, choose two continuous or metric variables for which you would like to test a relationship.
  • Develop the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.
  • Use SPSS to calculate a correlation coefficient and a simple linear regression. You can decide which should be the independent (predictor) variable and which should be the dependent (criterion) variable.
  • Decide whether to reject or retain the null hypothesis.
  • Generate a scatterplot to visually assess the relationship between two variables.
  • Generate syntax and output files in SPSS. You will need to copy and paste these into your Application document.
  • Based on your SPSS analysis, report the results using correct APA format. Your report should include the following:
  • • SPSS syntax and output files

Paper on Descartes.

In his celebrated “Dream Argument,” Descartes maintained that we should not trust any test that purports to distinguish dreaming from waking states. For any test you can think of, Descartes argued, you can never know whether you actually performed the test (and so have in hand useful test results) or whether you merely dreamed that you performed it (and so do not have any test results — the test never took place because you merely dreamed that you performed it!).

Your assignment this week is to apply Descartes’ argumentation to the “pinch test,” according to which if you pinch yourself hard right now and feel a sharp stab of pain then you know that you are awake. Please be sure that your essay addresses the following:

1.    What would what would Descartes conclude about the reliability of the pinch test?

2.    Exactly why would he conclude this?

3.    Do you agree with Descartes’ reasoning and conclusion? Why or why not?

Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long.

Building the Professional You: Your Code of Conduct and Mission Statement

For this task, you are to engage in 3 tasks designed to aid you on your path as a professional. You are to develop 3 pieces to your professional puzzle:

• Your personal code of conduct
• Your professional code of conduct
• Your personal mission statement

Research codes of conduct for different professions and organizations, and also research mission statements of different organizations. You may want to start with organizations that fall within your proposed career path. Based on your research, develop a personal code of conduct that is based on your personal values, a professional code of conduct based on your personal values and the values of your chosen profession, and a personal mission statement.

For your personal code of conduct, consider the following questions:

• What makes you truly happy?
• What you value most?
• What gives you personal and professional fulfillment?
• What excites you?
• What are your gifts and talents?

For your professional code of conduct, consider the following questions:

• What are your ethical responsibilities as a member of your proposed profession?
• How does your conduct support the mission of your organization?
• What basic principles of ethical behavior should be modeled?
• How can this code guide you through an ethical decision-making process?
• How will you deal with complaints regarding your behavior?

For your personal mission statement, consider the following:

• What is your vision of the world?
• How will you make that vision a reality (or how will you contribute to that vision of the world)?
• Describe your standards of behavior to which you will hold yourself.
• Include all facets of your being: your emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical components.
• How will you define your character?
• What image do you want to portray to the world?
• To whom are you directing this mission statement?

Assemble all 3 statements into 1 document with distinct sections for each statement. There is no particular ordering in the document that must be used, but it might make the most sense to start with the personal mission statement, and then draft the 2 codes of conduct. It is acceptable for elements of the personal and professional codes of conduct to be the same because your personal and professional lives do overlap.