RE: bystander effect and cross-cultural research

[Martin J. Bourgeois]

Michael says:

It is my observation re the FAE that international students
are more likely to blame themselves for both academic successes and
failures,whereas U.S students take credit for successes and have a
tendency to blame environmental factors for their failures.
-probably an offshoot of being culturally conditioned to assume
that when things go wrong the environment may have played a part.
It can be a form of stubborn and rigid and inflexible individualism.
 
 
So it sounds like you are suggesting that if your observations contradict
research findings we should trust your observations. So, in order to
evaluate your claim, I would like to know:

1. How do you operationalize the FAE in your observations?
2. How do you establish the reliability and validity of your measure of the
FAE?
3. On how many observations is your conclusion based?
4. Is this true of international students of ALL other countries, or certain
ones?

If you answer these for me, I'll compare your observations to the studies
that have been published in peer reviewed (i.e., Eurocentric) journals, and
then decide which is more persuasive.

Thanks,
Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming