Naima_1_DQ3
What, if anything, is wrong with using college-aged students in research about romantic relationships?
First of all, in order to have valid and reliable results from any research, it is necessary to have a wider pool of people from different ages and backgrounds. Therefore, by only including college-aged students, the results are not valid and may be biased.
Moreover, us, college students are at a stage of our lives where we are not very clear about how we feel and about the decisions that we are supposed to make. We are going through a process of finding ourselves and defining who we are. Therefore, we may not be very clear about our feelings towards our partners. We have emotions that we cannot yet control and we make lots of mistakes, which includes poor decisions about who we date and how we behave in a relationship.
By no means am I saying that college students should not be included in this kind of research, but that also people from different emotional stages should be included as well.
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posted by Naima @ 8:41 PM
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I feel like this question was slightly difficult to answer because there were no specific details on the research in the question. Romantic research is a very broad topic. If the researchers wanted to research specifically college students in the area of romance, then I guess there wouldn't be much problems with using only college students as subjects. However, if the researchers just wanted to conduct a general research in the area of romance, then just like you said, the researchers need to make sure that they have subjects from various demographics in order to obtain valid results.
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