On 2012-04-10, at 12:06 PM, mjchael sylvester wrote: > I am curious if those people could ever be selected to be in a psychology > experiment: where would the equity be? > Would you include Miss Vancouver in an all female gender experiment?
Miss Universe is not scientific research, and so the issues are quite different. Although there are political matters here that are potentially explosive here, for scientific purposes, one would probably exclude such individuals from research that is primarily focused on gender differences because it is not clear what sort of impact they would have. To do so would be roughly the same as excluding left-handers from most language cognition research (as is commonly done) because it is not entirely clear which left-handers process language (mainly) on the left side of their brains, like most other people, and which process it on the right side, and which do something entirely different. (Just for the record, I am myself a left-hander.) Of course, I understand that people who are on the lookout for discriminatory slights are not likely accept such an explanation. Probably safer to test them like everyone else who volunteers, and then exclude the data later on in the process, if necessary. Just my humble opinion. Please don't write hate mail. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17232 or send a blank email to leave-17232-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
