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intro.psych (Psyco 105) Discussion: Group 1 Discussion Group: Reading the Research - Social Development: Are the conclusions important?
By Jep on Sunday, October 11, 1998 - 05:26 pm:
When I was reading through this, I was thinking what is the whole point of it all, in reality. So I read along, and found that okay, so maybe this might work. When I reached the results and saw what they were I became interested in what was going on. By the time I reached these conclusions, and read them I was back wishing I was somewhere else. These particular conclusions and discussions, didn't really have anything to do with the research questions asked. Sure they summed it off nicely at first but then they went off on some tangent about how they should take the theories and put them together, which has nothing to do with the questions at hand. It was like they were starting a new paper with a new introduction and new question. I feel that if the writer was able to stay on topic it would be useful for someone who didn't really understand all of the results and such, and it would kind of sum up in lamens terms what had happened and what was going on.
The conclusions are not really far reaching. They confirm that men look for fertility in a mate and that women look for provision. Kenrick et al. don't really say anything important that wasn't discovered from the previous study on adults. They do discuss differences between evolution and social theories but I couldn't find anything really interesting (or comprehensible) in most of their conclusions.
It was interesting to see that this particular group of adolescent boys prefered older females but again, I don't think the sample size was large or diverse enough to really make any important conclusions or generalizations about adolescent mate preferences.
SUMMARY - In this particular study, the results do not seem to completely satisfy the question. It is of one oppinion that the writer did not stick to the topic at hand and therefore lost the interest of the reader. It is of another oppinion that there were no new conclusions to be drawn from this study. It seems that if a larger and more diverse sample size was used along with some provisions to the method of data collection, this study may have had a greater impact with more clear and definate conclusions.
By Mike on Monday, October 12, 1998 - 03:14 pm:
By Ivanka on Monday, October 12, 1998 - 10:46 pm:
By Ivanka on Tuesday, October 13, 1998 - 11:36 pm: