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To: blam
re: A total of 237 undergraduate students (80 men and 157 women aged 16 to 25 years), from the psychology department at a state university in the northeast of the US, completed questionnaires measuring personality traits and life goals.)))

...from the psychology department...

18 posted on 08/28/2007 5:08:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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...from the psychology department...

Exactly. This is a biased sample to begin with chosen to provide the results the researchers intended when they set up their "study".

26 posted on 08/28/2007 5:22:21 PM PDT by johniegrad
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