Hi Annette,
Okay, I'll bite. What you have here is a study that has elements of
a correlational study and of an experimental one. You can randomly assign
subjects to see a male or a female in trouble, but you can't randomly assign
subjects to _be_ male or female. Thus, gender of subject is an
nonmanipulated independent variable, which, as I understand, throws it into
the correlational camp.
I'm curious what others think.
Joe
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> From: Annette Taylor
> Reply To: Annette Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 2:29 PM
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> Subject: How would you do this assignment?
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> I'd like to know how some of you Tipsters would do this assignment:
> I asked them to if the following study is correlational or experimental.
> If correlational describe if it is a positive or negative relationship and
> list possible third variables and/or confounds.
> If experimental, briefly describe the causal relationship between A and B.
>
> OK so far--they had five scenarios and most students did them all
> correctly, except that zero of them saw the next one the way I did:
>
> Despite popular belief, men are just as likely to 'help' as women are.
> In fact, one study indicated that they were more likely than women to
> engage in helping behavior. When confederate men and women were staged
> in a parking lot having apparently locked their keys in their car, 80%
> of the individuals who came to see if they needed help were men. (The
> staging was done so that equal numbers of men and women would pass by.)
>
>
> Well, I'll look for some answers before I give you mine and what my
> thinking was. I jsut want to know that _someone_ other than myself
> saw this this the way I did, alternatively, I may be wrong and need
> to go back and regrade these homework assignments :-)
>
> annette
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