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Read the article “Cognitive Effects of Risperidone in Children with Autism and Irritable Behavior”, and identify the research questions and/or hypotheses as they are stated. Consider the following questions: What are the variables (sample sizes, population, treatments, etc.)? How was the analysis of variance used in this article (and what type of ANOVA was used)?

Write a three-page paper presenting the information listed below. In addition, provide a title page and reference page in APA style. Cite any references made to the article within the body of the paper in APA style. Paper should begin with an introductory paragraph (including a thesis statement) and end with a concluding paragraph summarizing the major points made in the body of the paper and reaffirming the thesis.

The body of your paper must:

1. Determine what questions the authors are trying to answer by doing this research.

2. Determine the hypothesis being tested and the concepts that were applied in this process.

3. Evaluate the article and critique the statistical analysis employed in the study. Would you have included more and/or different variables? Explain your answer.

4. Examine the assumptions and limitations of the statistical study. What would you have done differently in this case? Explain your answer.

5. Identify how the authors applied statistical testing to the problem.

6. Interpret the findings of the author(s) using statistical concepts.

EXP 389

Fall 2013

Knoll

Essay 5

Some people believe that it is human nature to be cruel to others. These people might argue that this cruelty is why Stanley Milgram’s subjects acted as they did, and why no one helped Kitty Genovese. Do you accept this explanation of human psychology? Yes? No? Somewhat? And why do you see it like you do? What kinds of circumstances induce cruel behavior? What does this tell you about how cruelty fits into our human nature? Use the cases we read about to help you construct your argument.

In coming up with your own position on this issue, I encourage you to think about all that you’ve learned about in the cases we have read about for this assignment:

· “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram,

· The Kitty Genovese case as discussed in Chapter 4 of Lauren Slater’s Opening Skinner’s Box “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual—A Five Stage Approach”

· Darley and Latane’s experiments as discussed in Chapter 4 of Lauren Slater’s Opening Skinner’s Box “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual—A Five Stage Approach”

Consider the grey areas, rather than arguing strictly on one side or the other. Instead of saying YES we are cruel, or NO we are not, try to come up with a more complex answer to explain human behavior in these cases.

In your essay, be sure to include:

· Support for your argument with relevant ideas, information, and quotations from Milgram’s essay

· Support for your argument with relevant ideas, information, and quotations from Slater’s Chapter 4

Things to Shoot For:

· Show that you have carefully read the texts from this unit, and that you have fully digested and considered the different viewpoints and evidence.

· Show you are really thinking about the topic—these are complex questions, so don’t settle for easy answers. And don’t feel that you have to take an either-or position.

· Write so that someone not in our class could understand it. Assume your audience has not read these texts. That means you’ll need to briefly summarize key ideas/information and explain any unfamiliar terms.

· Write at least 4 complete pages, typed, 12 point font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins.

Turn-in Procedures:

· Your final draft is due Friday, May 2nd

· Submit the essay to Turnitin.com via Blackboard by 11:59 PM on Friday, May 2nd

· Bring a hard copy to class with the following documents in one pocket of your assignment folder:

o Writing Center Signature form

o Draft you reviewed during your Writing Center conference

o Any drafts you brought to class for peer review, conferences, etc.

o A blank rubric

Writing Center Signature Sheet Writing Conference Instructor: ________________

EXP 389/Dr. Knoll Writing Conference Instructor’s Initials:_________

Fall 2013 Date and time of your visit: ___________________

Remember,

· The signature form must be complete by Thursday, May 1st

· You must bring the prompt, this signature sheet, and any writing you have completed to get credit for a formal conference in WR 380.

· This sheet must be signed, dated, and complete in order to receive credit for your conference in EXP 389.

· You can only get credit for one formal conference per writing assignment, but I encourage you to meet with an instructor more than once during your writing process.

Complete this portion before your conference:

1. What is working well for you and what are you struggling with in Essay 5?

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2. What specific questions do you have about Essay 5?

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Complete this portion after your conference:

1. Identify the specific elements of your draft you discussed in your conference.

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2. Explain what you learned from your conference.

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Focus Questions for Essay 5

“The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram

· Explain Milgram’s experiment and the reactions of the participants in the experiment as well as Milgram’s analysis of reasons why subjects responded as they did

“In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual—A Five Stage Approach” (Chapter 4 of Opening Skinner’s Box) by Lauren Slater

· Explain the Kitty Genovese case and Darley and Latane’s experiment and discuss the various theories about what causes a bystander to avoid action in an emergency.

Reading Activities for Essay 5

“The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram

For this reading assignment, I would like you to annotate the text, focusing on three main areas:

· Note any areas where Milgram explains how the experiment worked

· Note any areas that discuss the reactions of the participants in the experiment.

· Note any areas where Milgram analyzes the reasons why subjects responded as they did.

As you are annotating, be sure you are also noting your reactions to the text in the margins.

“In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing” by Lauren Slater

For this reading assignment, I would like you to annotate the text, focusing on four main areas:

· Note any areas where Slater describes what happened in the Kitty Genovese experiment

· Note any areas where Slater explains or analyzes bystander’s reactions in the Kitty Genovese experiment

· Note any areas where Slater explains how Darley and Latane’s experiment worked

· Note any areas where Slater explains or analyzes people’s reactions in the Darley and Latane experiment.

As you are annotating, be sure you are also noting your reactions to the text in the margins.

Blog Posts for Essay 5

Week 12:

· Write about a time in which you behaved cruelly towards another person. What did you do? Why? What were the circumstances around your behavior? Did you intend to behave cruelly, or did something else spur the behavior? Explain the situation, and connect your analysis with Milgram’s text.

Week 13:

· Choose one reaction of a participant in the Milgram experiment and explain what this shows readers about human nature.

Week 14:

· Have you ever been in a situation similar to that of Kitty Genovese, when something bad was happening to someone else and people around hesitated to help? Or have you been in the opposite situation, where something bad was happening and everyone clamored to help? Describe one of these situations from your own life and reflect on the reasons why people acted as they did. Are there similarities or differences between your situation and that described in “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing”?

Essay 5 Rubric Grade:

Critical Analysis

above expectations

meeting

expectations

developing the skill

not yet passing

As an academic writer, you should . . .

Use a critical voice to answer the essay prompt

Show you have thought critically about the topic

Discuss complexities and not make things seem more simple than they really are

Develop ideas fully by using strong specific examples to support your analysis

Make a strong analytical claim in your thesis

Explain the reasons for your claim in your thesis (your because statement)

Connection to texts

above expectations

meeting

expectations

developing the skill

not yet passing

As an academic writer, you should . . .

Explain the ideas in the texts for readers who have not read the texts

Support analysis with specific examples, information, and quotations for the texts

Use your critical voice to explain how examples and quotations from the text connect to your analysis

Use TAG (title, author, genre) statements to introduce texts

Use signal phrases or incorporate quotations smoothly into your writing

Let readers know where you got the information by using MLA in-text citations

Organization

above

expectations

meeting

expectations

developing the skill

not yet passing

As an academic writer, you should . . .

Present ideas in an order that makes sense to readers

Open with an intro that engages readers and conveys overall focus of the essay

Make sure each paragraph has a clear focus

Use topic sentences to articulate the main idea of each paragraph

Break your argument into manageable chunks for your readers

Use your critical voice to connect the different parts of your essay

Provide closure through a concluding sentence in each paragraph

End with a conclusion that completes the discussion

Mechanics

above expectations

meeting

expectations

developing the skill

not yet passing

As an academic writer, you should . . .

Observe conventions of standard written English

Write in a clear, readable style that uses well-chosen words and effective sentence variety

Take time to carefully proofread your writing

Meet the minimum length requirements of the assignment

Format your essay according to MLA guidelines

Follow MLA citation format when using outside sources

Additional Comments:

Part A: Short-Answer Questions (30 marks)

Answer the following six questions that relate to the Module 3 readings, using full sentences and short paragraphs as appropriate. Your responses should be clear and succinct, approximately 75 words in length per question. No single question should exceed 125 words.

Each question is worth five (5) marks.

1. With respect to the Walsh article, consider a family you know of that has been dealing with critical family issues such as addiction, mental illness, or job loss or is grieving the loss of a loved one. Adopt the family resilience model and list some of the strengths of the family. Can you outline how these family strengths may help build family resilience in the face of adversity? Ensure you do not reveal the identity of the family. You may use a pseudonym (e.g., “Smith” or “Doe”) in your response.

2. Describe the example given in the McCabe et al. article that illustrates the importance of not generalizing research findings from the majority group (i.e., Caucasians) to a minority group.

3. May’s article discusses gender differences between mothers and fathers when dealing with their child’s serious health issues. How might developing a social support program for fathers with children who have serious health issues help these fathers and, in turn, their children? What sorts of topics might be included in such a program?

4. Assume that you are an employer and draw from the Grzywacz and Bass’s research to suggest one recommendation you would make to foster optimum work and family environments for your employees. Explain the reason for your recommendation.

5. Based on what you learned from the Johnson et al. article, what would be the benefits of following up these youth and parents, say, four years after the initial training program? Suggest two questions you would include in an interview given to the parents and teens at these follow-up sessions.

6. Considering what you learned from the Lucy LeMare study on Romanian orphans, would you expect the relationship between length of institutionalization and IQ to weaken over time (e.g., when the children are assessed at 16.5 years of age)? How might a providing a warm and caring environment impact a future relationship between length of institutionalization and IQ?

Part B: Essay (70 marks)

Write an essay of 500–750 words (2–3 double-spaced word-processed pages) on one of the following topics. Be sure that you are presenting the concepts in your own words and that you include current information.

Option 1: Other Family Resilience Research

You have been introduced to many family resilience factors in this module; however the effects of particular family factors protecting against other types of adversity (e.g., poor school performance) have not been discussed. Find at least two peer-reviewed journal articles that examine the protective effects of family resilience on an adversity that has not been discussed in this module. Summarize your articles, and provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion, based on evidence). Compare and contrast the articles (i.e., what similarities did you find? what differences?).

Option 2: Cross-Cultural Research in Family Resilience

1. Read and then summarize Cohen, Slonim, Finzi, and Leichtentritt’s journal article entitled, “Family Resilience: Israeli Mothers’ Perspectives.” You may use the notes and focus questions below to guide your summary. Once you have summarized the article, provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion based on evidence).

2. Find an additional peer-reviewed journal article that examines family resilience using a cross-cultural perspective, and summarize the findings from that study. Once you have summarized the article, provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion based on evidence).

3. Compare and contrast Cohen et al.’s research article with your research article. What similarities did you find? What differences?

Notes for “Family Resilience: Israeli Mothers’ Perspectives”

It is important and helpful to be aware of possible cross-cultural differences when it comes to defining “family resilience.” As you have discovered in previous papers in this course, concepts can have different meanings to different people, depending upon the culture studied. Recall, for example, the problems in generalizing research results gathered from the white, middle-class, majority culture to the urban African American minority culture. The same could be said of generalizing findings from North American cultures to other cultures such as those of the Middle East. Thus, it is important to conduct research that examines specific cultures in order to find similarities and differences among particular concepts, such as “family resilience.” This paper examines what “family resilience” means to a sample of Israeli mothers. When we think of Israel, often visions of war, violence, and political unrest come to mind. But it is important that we appreciate that Israeli citizens also deal with the day-to-day stressors that most of us are familiar with, such as family illnesses and divorce. You will see by the results of this study that Israeli mothers’ concepts of family resilience are actually very similar to North American concepts, suggesting that family resilience is a fairly universal concept.

Another important issue to note is that this study is qualitative in nature. Most studies you have read so far are quantitative. A quantitative study is number-based, such as studies whereby individuals fill out questionnaires, and numerical scores for each questionnaire are generated for each participant. These numbers are then entered into a statistical program and statistical analyses are conducted. A qualitative study, on the other hand, uses methods such as interviews, observations, and case studies to gather detailed data about a particular concept.

This study on Israeli mothers used a semi-structured interview format as well as a small sample size. Leading questions, such as asking the mothers about a recent stressful event, how they interpreted it, and how their family dealt with the stressful event, were part of the interview, along with asking the women to give a general definition of “family resilience.” Much data was generated, as the 15 interviews in this study averaged two hours each. The answers the mothers gave were then analyzed using what is called “grounded theory,” a central component of qualitative analyses. This means that common themes in the women’s answers as they related to family resilience were identified, and categories were created.

The authors of this research article explain the processes involved in analyzing interview data, such as the different types of coding that take place. Researchers often use the themes identified in qualitative analyses to create questionnaires, which can consequently be used in quantitative analyses with a larger sample size. Thus, qualitative studies are often preliminary in nature, providing a basis for the development of quantitative studies.

Focus Questions for Reading

Consider using the following questions to guide your reading and written summary of this article.

1. What were the goals of the present study?

2. Why did the authors choose to interview women from Israel, rather than from another country?

3. What were the five main categories identified that captured the concept of resilience for the Israeli women? Give a brief description of each category in your own words

4. For each category identified in question 3, give an example from the article.

5. What was a limitation of this study? Can you think of any other limitations?

Option 3: Foster Children and Family Resilience

1. Read and then summarize Schwartz’s journal article entitled, “Family Resilience and Pragmatic Parent Education.” You may use the notes and focus questions below to guide your summary. Once you have summarized the article, provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion based on evidence). You may also want to consider some of the issues raised in Lucy LeMare’s case of the Romanian orphan interviews.

2. Find an additional peer-reviewed journal article that examines family resilience, using an educational perspective, and summarize the findings from that study. Once you have summarized the article, provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion based on evidence).

3. Compare and contrast Schwartz’s (and LeMare’s, if you have chosen to include it) research with your research article. What similarities did you find? What differences?

Notes for “Family Resilience and Pragmatic Parent Education”

What if we could teach parents how to build resilience into their families? As we have seen in past research, family resilience may protect both parents and children from adversity. Consider the case of foster children, who have often had their share of adversity. They are usually born into unstable home environments where they often experience abuse and/or neglect. This kind of family background may put these children at risk for developing emotional issues such as depression or behavioural issues such as delinquency. Furthermore, many foster children have been moved from one foster care home to another, adding to the instability of their situation. Thus, it is particularly important for foster parents to build protective factors into their parenting and into their family unit in order to help buffer the past, present, and future adverse effects of being a foster child.

Focus Questions for Reading

Consider using the following questions to guide your reading and written summary of this article.

1. What are some of the problems with generic present-day parent education programs?

2. Why might a very structured family environment work with young children, but cause adolescent children to rebel?

3. Describe a strength of the foster care system.

4. What was the purpose of the Family Resilience Project?

5. Re: case study: Why do you think a delay in responding to the foster child’s behavioural outbursts was less successful than responding right away?

6. Re: case study: Why do you think rigidity in responding to the foster child’s behavioural outburst was less successful than flexibility in responding?

Part A: Short-Answer Questions (30 marks)

Answer the following six questions that relate to the Module 4 readings, using full sentences and short paragraphs as appropriate. Your responses should be clear and succinct, approximately 75 words in length per question. No single question should exceed 125 words. Each question is worth five (5) marks.

1. With respect to “Big Brothers/Big Sisters Mentoring: The Power of Developmental Relationships,” why do you think minority Little Brothers and Sisters showed a more dramatic lowering effect in their likelihood to use drugs, compared to non-minority Little Brothers and Sisters?

2. With respect to the Criss et al. article, it was found that neither temperament nor social information-processing patterns (encoding skills) influenced the likelihood of having positive peer relationships and friendships. The authors also note that unmeasured factors, such as physical attractiveness, IQ, and athletic ability, could possibly account for the buffering effects of positive peer relationships and friendships. How do you think such factors could influence having positive peer relationships and friendships, which would consequently lead to protection against family risk factors? Feel free to draw on research findings from the earlier modules (such as previous research on IQ and social competence) when giving your answer.

3. According to the Rodgers and Rose study, the most salient finding with respect to the resilience model is that peer support can buffer the effects of low parental support on internalizing behaviours for adolescents from divorced single-parent families. One interpretation of this finding is that more peer support leads to less internalizing behaviour. However, another plausible explanation is that adolescents with internalizing behaviours attract less peer support. Why might that be the case?

4. One core problem with the Cosden et al. study is that many members of the control group actually did attend other forms of homework assistance programs. Can you think of a way to deal with this issue?

5. Consider Michael Chandler’s research and explain how the narrative strategy of self and the oral storytelling traditions of Canadian Aboriginals play a role in maintaining cultural continuity and building resilience in Aboriginal youth. (You may also want to include examples from Rod McCormick’s research in your answer.)

6. Achor suggests that social support speeds the process of recovery. The readings, modules and assignments have continually focused on the many factors associated with resilience. Present an argument to either support or refute Achor’s statement. Feel free to draw on previous readings, modules or assignments to support your answer.

Part B: Essay (70 marks)

Write an essay ( maximum 500 words) (2–3 double-spaced word-processed pages) on one of the following topics. Be sure that you are presenting the concepts in your own words and that you include current information.

Option 1: Academic Resilience, Continued

Topic 4 introduced you to how academic resilience may be improved for students at risk for not completing their homework assignments. Improvement of academic resilience may also protect students from academic underachievement and/or dropping out of high school. Find two more peer-reviewed journal articles that examine academic resilience in at-risk groups. Summarize your articles, and provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion, based on evidence). Compare and contrast the articles (i.e., what similarities did you find? what differences?).

Option 2: Relating Community and Cultural Resilience Research to Individual or Family Resilience Research

Review Module 2 or Module 3 and select a research paper that examined individual or family resilience factors with respect to a particular risk factor (e.g., maternal psychopathology, work/family obligation overload). Find at least one peer-reviewed journal article that discusses a community resilience factor for that same risk factor. Summarize your research paper and provide your informed reaction (i.e., your opinion based on evidence). Compare and contrast your paper with the paper you used from Module 2 or 3 (i.e., what similarities did you find? what differences?).

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Some questions in Part A require that you access data from Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data is available on the student website under the Student Test Resources link.

For the following research questions, create one null hypothesis, one directional research hypothesis, and one nondirectional research hypothesis.

What are the effects of attention on out-of-seat classroom behavior?

Research Hypothesis: There will be a relationship between the effects of attention on out-of-seat classroom behavior versus in-seat-classroom behavior.

What is the relationship between the quality of a marriage and the quality of the spouses’ relationships with their siblings?

Null Hypothesis: There will be no relationship in the relationship between the quality of a marriage and the quality of the spouses’ relationship with their siblings.

What is the best way to treat an eating disorder?

One Directional Research Hypothesis:

Provide one research hypothesis and an equation for each of the following topics:

The amount of money spent on food among undergraduate students and undergraduate student-athletes

The average amount of time taken by white and brown rats to get out of a maze

The effects of Drug A and Drug B on a disease

The time to complete a task in Method 1 and Method 2

Why does the null hypothesis presume no relationship between variables?

Create a research hypothesis tested using a one-tailed test and a research hypothesis tested using a two-tailed test.

What does the critical value represent?

Given the following information, would your decision be to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Setting the level of significance at .05 for decision making, provide an explanation for your conclusion.

The null hypothesis that there is no relationship between the type of music a person listens to and his crime rate (p < .05).

In Hypothesis Testing, we typically deem a research hypothesis to be significant, if the odds of two means actually being equal are no greater than 1 in 20 or .05 (5%) or less.

The null hypothesis that there is no relationship between the amount of coffee consumption and GPA (p = .62).

The null hypothesis that there is a negative relationship between the number of hours worked and level of job satisfaction (p = .51).

Why is it harder to find a significant outcome (all other things being equal) when the research hypothesis is being tested at the .01 rather than the .05 level of significance?

At the .01 level, there is less room for error because the test is more rigorous.

Why should we think in terms of “failing to reject” the null rather than just accepting it?

When is it appropriate to use the one-sample z test?

What similarity does a z test have to a simple z or standard score?

For the following situations, write out a research hypothesis:

Bob wants to know if the weight loss for his group on the chocolate-only diet is representative of weight loss in a large population of middle-aged men.

The health department is charged with finding out if the rate of flu per thousand citizens for this past flu season is comparable to the average rate of the past 50 seasons.

Blair is almost sure that his monthly costs for the past year are not representative of his average monthly costs over the past 20 years.

There were about 15 flu cases per week, this flu season, in the Oshkosh school system. The weekly average for the entire state is 16 and the standard deviation, is 2.35. Are the kids in Oshkosh as sick as the kids throughout the state?

Please complete a response to each reply.

Reply # 1

Forum 4 Angela Elliott

Sexual Abuse with Women’s Health

“Sexual assault and harassment linked to long-term health problems for women” was a study that was published in a news article on CNN October 03, 2018. The research supporting this story was first published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There were 304 women, ages ranging from 40-60 and who were non-smokers, chosen via advertisements, mailings, and online message boards from Pittsburgh to participate in the study.

Ethical Concerns

I feel as if there weren’t ethical concerns among the researchers. The University of Pittsburgh institutional review board approved the course of action taking place among the participants. Each of the women in the study agreed to sign “informed consent” to take part in it. “Procedures included physical measurements, interviews, and questionnaires. Sexual harassment and assault were assessed from Brief Trauma Questionnaire items developed for the Nurses’ Health Study adapted from the Brief Trauma Interview” (Thurston, Chang, Matthews, von Kanel, Koenen, 2018).

Limitations of Study

“Survey studies, particularly of sexual harassment, largely access physical help via self report” (Thurston, 2018). Bias can take place by participants complaining of physical symptoms, mood, and memory loss. The second limitation of the study was that there are several factors such as socioeconomic status, obesity, and use of other medications. Another limitation is that a survey was used and relied on the participants assessment rather than using measurables that could be validated.

Linked Health Issues

Reports have been made from participants that sexual harassment and sexual assault have been associated with physical and mental problems. Women who have been sexually assaulted expressed a sense of anxiety, high blood pressure, increased depressed feelings, and lack of sleep. This occurred more often than in women who have not been sexual assaulted. “In a sense, the body is telling the story,” said Nancy Kriegar, a Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health professor.

References

Thurston RC, Chang Y, Matthews KA, von Kanel R, Koenen K. Association of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault with Midlife Women’s Mental and Physical Health. Jama Intern Med. Published online October 03, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4886

Reply # 2

William Belgie

I selected a YouTube video titled 8 Reasons Marriage is On The Decline. Does It Matter? (April 2017). This video is made available through the Health and Wellness Channel. The text for the video was based on a Cable News Network (CNN) Wire Service. report by Drake Baer, of Thrive Global. (Baer 2017) . The main study the reporter’s article and video are base based on is by Zürich economist named David Dorn which is titled When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men(2018). The video and report refer to several studies and on the surface the reporter and video accurately represent their conclusions. After examining the actual study referred to, I feel 8 Reasons Marriage is On The Decline. Does It Matter? Is it Overrated? misrepresents David Dorn’s, work and the conclusions found in When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men (2018). As the video states the study assessed the socioeconomic impact of the loss of manufacturing jobs. Dorn referred to building the study building on the work of William Julius Wilson and on other studies which previously identified the correlation loss of jobs in the coal industry and the rise of single heads of household ( Dorn, 2018). They built on this studies methodology and demonstrate the same correlation between “labor-market-opportunity” (Dorne 2018) affect by correlating changes in marriage, fertility, and children’s living circumstances. ( Dorn, 2018)

When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men (2018) meets the definition of a case study. David Dorn’s, research was bordered to a specific in-depth observation of “an individual, animal, event, or treatment method.” (Crawford 2017). Although the period studied is extensive, and the data gathered was archival and no direct observations were used to gather the information. The study made an extensive use of statistical investigation to create an empirical analysis by mathematical modeling independent variables impact as documented in the public records. They modeled a negative correlation between the unemployment and marriages recorded and the number of eligible males in the commute-zone or CZ ( Dorn, 2018) This mathematical model could be generalized to a population within the United States to predict the impact of “demand shocks” (Dune 2018) since the study focuses on the general manufacturing impact penetration of Chinese goods into the United States market. Additionally, the study found a positive correlation between the rise in unemployed due to the loss of manufacturing jobs by young men and their premature morality, idleness other socioeconomic impacts. (Dorn 2018) I believe that the video makes improper generalizations for larger population since this study does not support to the conclusions the CNN reporter attributes to it. I think this is a good example of the need to examine and beware the bias (unethical) use of research studies. After reading through the study I am glad that I am taking this class.

References

8 Reasons Marriage is On The Decline. Does It Matter? Is it Overrated [Video file]. (2017, September 29). Retrieved October 05, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWwzazeyjJU

Baer, D. (2017, Sep 22). Economic forces making US men less appealing partners, researchers say. CNN Wire Service Retrieved from http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/docview/1943494232?accountid=12085

Crawford, A. R, Bonds-Raacke Jennifer , & John Raacke, (2017). Introduction to Research: Less fright, more insight (Custom 2nd ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Author, D., Dorn, D., & Hanson, G. (2018, April). When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men. Retrieved October 05, 2018, from http://ddorn.net/research.htm

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