Merging Posts
yea i was thinking about the same thing too, cuz i saw some of the limitations were slightly overlapped. The editing you had done looks good to me! =]
I agree that merging where we can will help to make this section more accessible to people - good thinking.
I cut and pasted a bit from Survey to item #13 here regarding dual roles. I hope this is not a repetition; itf it is, please edt as necessary.
Even though #8 and #13 are not exactly the same I was thinking to combine them to organize this section more clearly but I just left them as it was. Since #14 also talks about dual roles and if I put all the ideas about dual roles in one point, it would be more confusing. How about if we change the order of the points so it is more logically organized and easier to reference to the previous points?
Hi,
I also think that there is definitely overlap with regards to dual roles; I agree that they should be re-arranged to be closer together. I've also noticed some recent posts that touch on some topics that have been mentioned above as well, such as generalizability and sampling. I don't know if you guys saw Dr. Veale's post down there but she would prefer that we eliminate list format and arrange these limitations into paragraphs instead.
I attempted to cluster the different limitations into different categories and this is what I came up with:
Participant Background: #9, #14 / Participant Bias: #1, #5, #6, #12, #16 / Sample Issues + Generalizability: #2, #15 / Method: #13, #8 / Content: #3, #4, #10 / Language: #7, #11
This is just a suggestion based on my attempt to clump similar topics together. How does everyone feel about this? I haven't actually made any changes on the page yet so anyone can feel free to give it a go! I know there are a number of repetitions to edit out and some sentences to make in order to enhance the flow - so it'll definitely be a challenge.
I think how you put them into different categories looks great! It will be easier to build each categories up when we come up with new ideas.
I reorganized the content as you suggested. I edited some overlaps but I may have missed some so feel free to edit them.
Thanks spkwong for taking on the task of organizing the limitations into different categories. It looks much more polished!
Nice work!
Hi everyone! This page is very easy to read now that it's been divided into sections! But when I was rereading through this section, I noticed that there was a bit of overlap in the "Sample Issues and Generalizability" section concerning random sampling, so I combined a few of the sentences into one paragraph and added a bit more about how it constrained the external validity of the experiment since the study was lacking in representativeness of the target population. I also added a bit as to why having a control group might be important, since we cannot infer from the data that we gathered that the relationships we found between variables was caused by one another; we can only state that they were correlated. Also, I was wondering if it's all right to explain that one of the limitations was that the experimenters were essentially the participants as well, since I found that this was explained in 3 sections: the "Participant Bias" section, "Experimenter Bias" section and "Method" section. Thanks and let me know what you think!