The Queens College resource site (http://www.soc.qc.edu/QC_Software/GSS.html) is a great place to start. You can get a downloadable program for extracting data from the General Social Survey (GSS) database here. It also has links to GSS topics and specific questions on the GSS.

Tip Two: Use FindArticles.com.

FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com) has full-text articles of studies done using all of the descriptive research methods discussed in Chapter 4. For example, you can find case studies on anorexia nervosa by entering your search term as follows: "case study" + "any clinical disorder". Not every return will be usable, but you will be able to find some articles from peer-reviewed journals. You have to use quotation marks to specify a phrase and you can search for articles containing more than one phrase by joining the phrases with a "+" sign.

Tip Three: Use this handy correlation calculator.

You can use this correlation calculator at http://calculators.stat.ucla.edu/correlation.php (select "correlation module" in upper-right panel) to quickly determine the correlation between any two variables you choose. This site also has calculators for other statistics as well as formulae.

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