Week 1: Is it good science or not?
What is going on my friends?! I hope that everyone had a wonderful week. I am excited to share what I learned in my family relations class with you all! It was the first week that I was there so we will see what I remember. The main thing that we talked about as a class was about how hard it can be to interpret and find good social science studies. What I mean by finding good studies is the way that the research is conducted. For example, we can get a study that shows that drinking soda is a better way to stay hydrated than water itself. Well, that can be intriguing or even surprising to see something like that to be true. What we need to do then is to look at the data. We need to look at who they studied, where they did the experiment on, the number of people, and basically how they did it. A lot of the times studies are conducted with the convince of the person conducting the research. In other words, the researcher will ask people that they know or people that live close to h...