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have higher perfectionistic tendencies and that extroverts do not, resulting in lower levels of happiness in introverts compared to extroverts. Many of these perfectionist tendencies are similar to social anxiety disorder possibly indicating a confounding variable skewing the results. That those with social anxiety have perfectionist tendencies due to the fear of social judgment, which can be mistaken as introverted personality tendencies. So participants levels of happiness may be due to other…

This is a review of the article titled Sex Differences in Concussion Symptoms of High School Athletes. The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in concussion symptoms between genders of high school athletes. In the United States, more than 1.6 million sports-related concussions occur every year. Averages of 21% of these happen to high school athletes (Frommer et al., 2011). More males have participated in sports than females over the years. In 2008, 3.01 million (or…

a statistical analysis that used to measure the risk or odds of an event between the categorical dependent variable (vaccination behaviors in children of age 6 years or less) and one or more independent variables after controlling for number of confounding variables. For logistic regression model there are some commonly associated terms…

PROVERTY AND WEALTH Poverty is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. We live in a society where if you’re not wealthy or high class then you really don’t matter. Wealthy should be more wealthy and the poor or should I say low class should pay for most of the finical problems for America. I believe that the poor, the homeless low class should be cared for, I believe that the wealthy should provide for the less fortunate. Mort Zuckerman donates $200 million (Columbia…

Abstract Inattentional blindness (IB) has been a confounding phenomenon of the failures of visual awareness and memory for decades, leaving researchers to debate the extent to which individuals experience the inability to see the unattended. The present study examined the relationship between the effects of IB and expert testimony on the credibility of witnesses in the courtroom. Results indicate that regardless of the presence of expert testimony, the witness who saw the crime was rated…

development. In the article I read, the researchers did an exceptional job on perfecting their experiment. They had both dependent and independent variables, and an experimental group and a control group. Lucas and Morley also kept in mind the confounding variables, and incorporated those with their findings. By using random assignment, they choose…

INTRODUCTION Multimorbidity, the simultaneous coexistence in individuals of more than one disease state, has become increasingly common in health care settings (1, 2). Patients who have multimorbidity are more likely to be admitted to hospital, experience premature death or a loss of physical functioning and have poor quality of life (3). Patients with significant multimorbidity are usually excluded from clinical trials. This has led to a scarcity of evidence in relation to appropriate…

In cyber crime for police to enter and search a computer they may issue a search warrant or media object if the object of search is located in a specific place. However, there must be probable cause that the computer contains evidence of a crime (Roberson 2015). Even though a search warrant can be of great benefit, there are times in which computer search warrants can be a little tricky than a physical warrant. In regards to the Fourth Amendment there are sensitive issues that involves an…

power. Another is the consideration that the person is either self- conscious or self-confident. Depending on where they may fall on the self-esteem range despite the music, the data collected could be potentially affected by it. Out of the many confounding variables, the one that stood out to me the most was the volume of the music. The article did say that in experiment 5a and 5b that volume was regulated, thus everyone listened to it at the same amplitude (Hsu et al. 2014). However, this was…

Unit 1 Summary: “Bipolar Disorder: The Agony and the Ecstasy” “Bipolar Disorder: The Agony and the Ecstasy” by Thomas Wheaton gives a day in the life of someone suffering from severe Bipolar disorder including the feelings of mania and depression, along with statistics from national health and his personal experience from a young boy to now. Bipolar Disorder is a mental condition where a person experiences extreme mania and depression. There are different types of bipolar disorder, Bipolar 1, 2…