Merging Posts
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!