Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Discuss. (if we're locking this, we might as well remove the link, eh?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sample size of twenty; article doesn't mention how subjects were recruited (selection bias?). No comment for or against the findings, just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 ...yeah, sounds pretty vague. But hey, the very last sentence contains a grain of truth. In my opinion, anyway. Stuff causes things, except in the cases where something else may be causing the things. This is going to be one of those issues that's almost impossible to pin down, if only because there's no control group (as the researcher seemed to find). (And I'm undecided if it's over the line for the board, truthfully.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 My preferred study is the one where they found that the correlation between the political leanings of a state and the amount consumed- 9 out of the top 10 consumer voted for McCain, and 8 out of the top 10 smallest consumers voted for Obama. So much for family values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Sample size of twenty; article doesn't mention how subjects were recruited (selection bias?). No comment for or against the findings, just saying. Usually how these things work is that somebody puts a note up on the psych department noticeboard offering $35 to anyone who wants to help participate in a study. Small sample sizes are the norm in this kind of research, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Originally Posted By: Thuryl Usually how these things work is that somebody puts a note up on the psych department noticeboard offering $35 to anyone who wants to help participate in a study. Small sample sizes are the norm in this kind of research, unfortunately. I note a excess of capital letters. Really Thuryl, of all the topics to be serious in, you had to pick this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 EDIT: The conversation is continuing HERE. What Dintiradan said -- that's a really tiny sample size, given the sweeping generalizations the researcher is attempting to make. Unfortunately, I'm less undecided than Ephesos. While it's nice that we have all been handling it well so far, it's only a matter of time until that ceases to be the case. Let's end this and continue this (quite worthwhile) discussion at SV or CRF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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