stank@uiucdcs.UUCP (08/10/84)
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uiucdcs!stank Aug 10 15:48:00 1984
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Given that scores of the males (mails!?) degraded when
errors either were verbally reported or when shock was
administered, are we allowed to conclude that men tend to
fall apart when things start going badly? I know I do --
if I make several mistakes when doing something, I tend
to get frustrated and then really screw up.
A point about the reliability of this study. Even given
that 33 males and 33 females is a sufficient number of
test subjects (which I doubt), it should be pointed out that virtually all
of these students will be from not only a single region of
the country but from a single state (viz., Kansas). Furthermore,
they all had the same major, i.e., pe. Now, I've got nothing
against Kansas (I enjoyed going to school at K.U.) and nothing
against pe majors, but aren't the subjects of this test from
too similar backgrounds to make any real generalizations?
Oh well, I don't know much about real science-- I'm in computer science.
Stanley Krolikoski
University of Illinois
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