Ender100@aol.com
Date: 08/26/02-03:28:23 PM Z
I was curious, so the other day I went to the supermarket and spent 15
minutes staring at the melons. I can report that I did feel somewhat calmer
after 15 minutes, but the main response I have to report is that I became
quite hungry and I ate one of them.
Mark Nelson
In a message dated 8/26/02 1:11:55 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
<< All of these questions are covered in research design, that's what
research design is about, to make sure the results are reliable and
valid. I personally don't believe any research results I hear about
until I've tracked down the study and seen that it was designed
properly, the results analyzed appropriately and accurately, and that
the conclusions drawn follow naturally from the results. And sometimes,
even if all that is done right, the media reports something different
from the findings anyway. This is why all students in school, in
addition to learning art (there, I got within shouting distance of
topic) should also learn how to read and interpret research.
But Sandy, I can tell you that touching would not be part of the design,
if Shannon's study was legitimate research, (and certainly we don't
know this for sure without seeing the study ourselves. There are a lot
of "studies" that everyone knows about, like the one where they flashed
"Drink Coke" or whatever it was on the movie screen and everyone got up
and bought Coke? Never happened, there's no such study. I know a
psychologist who spent a lot of time looking for this study and finally
tracked it to an advertising man who just made it up.) because all
research involving human subjects has to go through human subjects
review, and a human subjects reviewer at any institution would not
Katharine Thayer >>
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