Mary Lauran ’10 sends this tip in:
You know how you can get paid five bucks if you participate in a study for the psych department? Well, apparently we’re contributing to a tendency to survey convenience samples of college students who don’t accurately represent the greater population. Like all cool tendencies, this one has a catch phrase: “science of the sophomore.” Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article about it here.
Working with college students is just that– convenient. Handing out a survey and $5 and then analyzing the data is a great way for psych majors to learn basic research skills. Most of this data isn’t used for publishable papers anyway. I agree that college students are way overrepresented in psych studies but I just wanted to give a bit of an explanation for the plethora of surveys and small tasks.-Psych major
Working with college students is just that– convenient. Handing out a survey and $5 and then analyzing the data is a great way for psych majors to learn basic research skills. Most of this data isn’t used for publishable papers anyway. I agree that college students are way overrepresented in psych studies but I just wanted to give a bit of an explanation for the plethora of surveys and small tasks.-Psych major
Working with college students is just that– convenient. Handing out a survey and $5 and then analyzing the data is a great way for psych majors to learn basic research skills. Most of this data isn’t used for publishable papers anyway. I agree that college students are way overrepresented in psych studies but I just wanted to give a bit of an explanation for the plethora of surveys and small tasks.
-Psych major
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleyingApparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleyingApparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleyingApparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleyingApparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleying
Apparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”
I’m sorry, this comment isn’t actually about the post. I just thought it was funny and wanted to share it with the Wesleying staff.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wesleying
Apparently, the word “wesleying” is defined on urbandictionary.com as “finger of your penis hole” and the example used is, “George Bush is wesleying instead of being a good president.”