PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes -Reading Disability, Lateralization Of Brain Function, 3 Women
17 Apr 2013
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Cautions about the way psychologists conduct their research. We need to be cautious about interpreting results. Biased samples can influence results most research is on college students, we know nothing about non college attendees, mostly white people. Researchers expectations bias results usually what the research wants influences the study. Seldom find gender differences in research frequency distributions tell us how many people in a sample receive each score, typically a frequency distribution for males and females have a large overlap and small. Seperation males and females are reasonably similar. Researches seldom find gender differences in each situation we cannot make general statements about gender overall. Gender differences found in research should not discourage the opposite gender from pursing a career in a certain field. Originally used the box-score approach combine results of various studies and tally results to form overall yes or no. Meta-analysis provides a statistical method for combining numerous studies on a single topic.
