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Date Posted: 16:50:35 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Evelyn Moore
Subject: Bias in Adolescent Research

As a research analyst for more that 20 years, I was most interested in the research challenges to ensure that a research conducted is ethical. As stated in Chapter 2 (p.57) "Ethics is an important part of the science of adolescent research." One day when picking up my daughter at the University of Memphis, I performed a random research of students walking across campus talking on cell phones. Approximately, 3 out of 5 were talking on cell phones. The gender and race were equally distributed. However, in the classroom, I somehow have a problem not crossing the boundaries of being biased when there is an African American young man that walks into the classroom with his pants hanging under his rearend. I noticed that I will tell him, quickly without thinking, to pull his pants up, but I am less proned to address other young men of other cultures. This is a growing challenge because analysis is analysis, guided by the researcher. We much minimize gender, cultural and ethnic bias. As an analyst, I am more prone to do my own research, unless it is derived from a noted research group, because statistics in any research can be skewed negatively or positively based on the researchers point of view. Overgeneralizing is a major challenge in validating research data.

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