Minor edits + difficulty understanding some parts
Hello!
I've made some minor edits to the entry (grammar, formality of some terms, tense). Hope that's okay. There are some parts I am having difficulty understanding, if anybody could clarify or edit these parts, that'd be great!
"was created from a correction of a number of questions that were developed by third year level university course students." --> as in, some questions were filtered out, and others were converged and refined?
No control group was used for the study, not were repeat questions given out to confirm reliability" --> there were no repeat questions?
Steph
I could add more on the limitations of the study, overall it seems a bit brief so far!
The limitations overview could be a little bit more detailed, but as an overview it should be brief and to the point. Do you think the overview needs a closing paragraph, or are the limitations sufficient?
Hi, I think it would be better to expand the limitation a bit. I had given some explanation of “untruthful self-reports”, but I am not sure whether “unrepresentative samples” indicates lack of generalizability?
I think it does indicate a lack of generalizability. Since the questionnaire was developed by and completed by the same third-year psych students, we're probably not representative of the any population (unless the population is defined as "third-year psych students UBC" haha!). That's my rationalization at least, what do you think?
And also regarding to another facet of generalizability is different conditions. Having high generalizability is the degree that they apply widely over different persons, situations, cultures, and times. For example, from our questionnaire, the reactions from an individual who encounters unfortunate events may different from the reactions from getting fired in the workplace. Or any other examples that could be added to the “limitation” part?