Social Science - 28 September 2007

In scientific methodology, randomization is used to put people into groups for experiments on human behavior. The underlying assumption: human beings have finite, discretely definable characteristics, and when placed into a larger group, differences between individuals cancel out so that we can confidently take the average of the group and analyze it like it represents a real averaged person. A larger group supposedly creates larger accuracy. However, if this approach ignores that each person's unique qualities affect the specific variable under investigation, our results are skewed to this average person we created through calculations but who doesn't really exist. If these results are skewed then what science tells us about human behavior is also skewed.

2007-09-28 13:26:09 · 6 answers · asked by What I Say 3 in Psychology

2007-09-28 13:16:11 · 16 answers · asked by Nightnday 1 in Sociology

Does grief cause you to do things you don't normally do?
My best friend's mom died a few weeks ago, & she's sort of been acting differently. I know she was sexually abused a lot as a child, & she was adopted, & her mom was mentally handicapped. Now, it seems like she's been trying to seduce everyone she can, including me. She's bisexual, BTW. I'm hetero. I told her I'm not like that, & she's been begging everyone in sight to have sex with her, & I'm scared & worried that she might get hurt by guys. I look @ her like a sister, not a sex buddy. @ first when her mom died, she didn't wanna be around anyone, & now, she's trying to have sex with everyone. & everyone is trying to get @ her, too. She's going wild. I still wanna be her friend because if I don't have her as a friend, I don't have anybody. I'm worried about her safety. & last night she tried to pressure me to hav sex with her, & she always tries to fondle me & when I get mad, she laughs. Last night she admitted that her mom's death is causing her to be like this. She feels unloved.

2007-09-28 13:15:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

i need help, please answer. thank you ^_^

2007-09-28 13:14:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I dreamt about my deceased mother the othyer night. First she was unusually mean. I woke and went back to sleep and made her be nice to me. Wierd?

2007-09-28 13:05:54 · 9 answers · asked by ugh192 4 in Dream Interpretation

as well as the various economic goals that each tries to achieve?

2007-09-28 12:48:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

plz/thx

2007-09-28 12:42:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

I guess im up late because it's time to myself..something i never get

Do you have educational or business work to do, or are you just not tired?..

2007-09-28 12:41:36 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I don't know how long it went for but this is the stuff I can remember:

The dream starts out that I was shot in the head. As a result of the shooting, I was in a coma for five years and all of a sudden woke up. Whilst I was in this coma, my daughter and her mother relocated without telling my family. As I began to realize the impact of the situation I tried to contact some of my friends. My buddy Jack and Ernie found me and came to live with me on my rather large estate in Maryland.
Then I tried to get a hold of one of my close friends Kallan through a phone call. I tried to explain my situation to her about the shooting and she was rather angry with me. The odd thing was I can remember that I had slurred speech as a result of my condition. And, it impaired my ability to have a conversation with her. She told me, "Well, you should have worried about that before. It's been five years and nothing," and then she hung up on me. I was hurt and did not know what to say. Shortly after..

2007-09-28 12:12:16 · 12 answers · asked by Patrick the Carpathian, CaFO 7 in Dream Interpretation

i mean without getting angry with them, so you don't get into trouble.
and why is it the most people who i find try to play these mind games with me are ' white brits'? did they invent mind games?

could someone explain? im not a mind games person and hate them.
im from south east france originally and aim to leave britain eventually.
but i want to know how i can handle these mind games, where i feel they attempt to destablize my sense of reality.

i hate THAT people, i really do. i already struggle with bpd as it is, and have life tough...so i dont consider it brave to have these mind games perpatrated towards me.

im 30 now and struggle with trauma and bpd since 16

2007-09-28 12:12:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Growing up in Europe, this was considered somewhat barbaric, although it's a must in the culture I was born in. What are the pros and cons? I have heard about "hygiene" reasons but don't really have much knowledge to go either way with my opinion.

2007-09-28 12:07:49 · 39 answers · asked by Lioness 6 in Gender Studies

Guys seldom see me "that way", and I never get asked out to wild parties. While talking to an aquaintance some time ago she said that there is a "purity" to me. I don't have to be a wild woman, but I feel like life is passing me by. What is it about a person that makes people think that a person is too "pure" to ask out to a bar or on a date?

2007-09-28 12:06:23 · 13 answers · asked by AJ 1 in Psychology

all the emphasis put on our "purity" and "virginity?"

2007-09-28 11:32:52 · 20 answers · asked by Lioness 6 in Gender Studies

not just trading around worthless peices of paper

2007-09-28 11:32:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

I also believe in equality.
What is wrong with that?

2007-09-28 11:02:28 · 12 answers · asked by georgebonbon 4 in Gender Studies

I commenced a part time Administrator role in a small company a month ago where my role was to work alongside the Senior Administrator. A week into the job I realised I was working alongside "Thelma & Louise".. two women joined @ the hip who play a wonderful manipulative narcissistic game with myself and the office junior. The business owner is also under their "spell" so it is futile even mentioning how difficult it is to work in this environment. I would appreciate comments on how to deal with this situation as I am finding it increasingly difficult to go to work each day whilst watching them prowl like lionessess watching myself and office junior even though they are continually spouting that they are sooooooo busy.

2007-09-28 10:59:55 · 5 answers · asked by legeebroonette 1 in Psychology

"immediate reinforcement with delayed negative consequences"
what is it means ?> thanKZ

2007-09-28 10:44:07 · 4 answers · asked by SFJ238 1 in Psychology

2007-09-28 10:41:22 · 18 answers · asked by fallofkron 1 in Gender Studies

2007-09-28 10:38:26 · 13 answers · asked by Cecilia M 2 in Psychology

HAVING MY ROCKBAND IS THE DREAM THAT KEEEPS ME ALIVE BUT HOW CAN I GET IT DONE IF I'M LONELY, BY THE WAY I HAVE MY SONGS WRITTEN

2007-09-28 10:31:09 · 2 answers · asked by Nobody4689 5 in Psychology

2007-09-28 10:10:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

I dream about really random, crazy things like people I havent seen for years - why do they come into my head when I havent even been thinking about them ??

2007-09-28 10:01:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dream Interpretation

My whole family left the house for like the day (me, my brother, my mom, dad, and grandma) and i have no idea if the upstairs was unlocked or locked (i think it was locked) and some how a person busted in upstairs of the house, and dug in ONLY my purse, and stole everything out of my wallet (my bank card, social security card, my band card with my account # on it, and my insurance card) but the person never took my money or my ID's. My wallet was left empty with money and ID's, all the rest was gone.
When we got home, i found out my wallet and purse was dug through (the person never took my keys but took my cell phone) and it took me like a week before i was gonna call someplaces about my social security card and my bank cards. I woke up before i was going to make the calls with my grandma.

What does my dream mean?

2007-09-28 09:58:50 · 4 answers · asked by ♥mcmanda♥ 5 in Dream Interpretation

2007-09-28 09:58:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

Since we're on the subject of porn... ;) ... have any of you ever picked up a pointer or two while watching? Learned a new trick or two??

2007-09-28 09:56:59 · 12 answers · asked by Super Ruper 6 in Gender Studies

Stuttering problem shy around women

2007-09-28 09:48:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

It seems to me that wherever I go, there are screaming kids and parents who are at their wits end. Most people I can think of have kids because they were "mistakes" or because they are just going with the flow. Don't people think about overpopulation? Or that most marriages are not going to work out. Or really think about their motives for having kids, and what kind of parent they will be? I just feel badly for all these kids who have lousy lives with parents who don't give them boundaries and are put on Ritilan because they want them to shut up and have children as parents, etc.

2007-09-28 09:40:21 · 5 answers · asked by dianna 2 in Psychology

What is normal anyway?

2007-09-28 09:28:48 · 12 answers · asked by Patrick 2 in Psychology

Well, does it? Right now, I'm either really sad or really angry or whatever. My parents say it's just a phase, but I don't feel so...

2007-09-28 08:55:34 · 16 answers · asked by Lyla 3 in Psychology

I am going to start by saying that I am a normal person for all practical purposes. I was not abused or went through any traumatic experience in my childhood. I am happily married with no issues with my wife.

I have a secret that I have kept for a number of years and I need you guys to help me understand why. It is not something that I can discuss with anyone, so here it goes.

I have a very sick sexual fantasy. I think of having rough sex with a woman and towards the end, choke her with one hand and place the other one over her heart. I think of how wonderful I will feel as her heartbeat would race and then stop as she dies and I orgasm inside of her as her heart stops.

Why does this turn me on? Why do I feel this way? What is wrong with me?

I do want to add that though this turns me on, I know it is wrong and I will of course never act upon something so evil.

2007-09-28 08:48:56 · 18 answers · asked by Markin 1 in Psychology