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Date Posted: 20:08:13 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Jessica Roesch
Subject: cultural/gender bias

I found the discussion in Chapter 2 on cultural and gender bias in research to be one of most interesting and important topics. I think that society places alot of trust in research findings and when conducted improperly or unethically, findings can lead to huge misconceptions. The scary part of this is that these findings often turn into beliefs or assumptions about student populations by teachers and others working with adolescents. Findings from esearch conducted on an all male sample should not be assumed to be true of females and vice versa. I think it is an even greater disservice to the educational community to discount minority data. This chapter commented about the tendency for researchers to throw out scores from minority participants because they may confound data. This practice leads to a lack of generalizability to real world populations, the populations that you and i will undoubtedly encounter in our professions.

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