| Thoran |
07-23-2003 08:26 AM |
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Originally posted by Father Bronze:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
. . . Otherwise your results are open to confounding from other variables - that is, you can't draw any conclusions because effects might be due to other variables not the one you have manipulated. There may be something about being online that affects your daydreaming that not being online does not. . .
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Very good observations. Luckily, this project is just one aspect of my summer course in The Social Foundations of Education. It's not for my thesis. Maybe some day I will make a more thorough examination of the variables and create a publishable paper. For now, I'm just trying to get an "A" in my class. </font>[/QUOTE]Yes that is a good point, it's important to know what you're trying to discover... do you want to know how computer gamers stack up against the average public (use a broad control), do you want to know how computer gamers stack up against the online computing public (use an online control). IMO these would both be interesting comparisons, although a general public control would be more interesting to me, since there's on average going to be more differentiation there. |
