help a gurl out +rep

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i just took everyones answers, saved it on a word document and deleted the pms.
well have a guess at the findings? atm its mostly young people i've got for my research so obviously that'll have an effect and my questions/hypothesis is quite limited so i'll hve to critique. i personally believe attitudes depend on age and experience and younger and more experience would have less negative attitudes but i've not read all of them yet.

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oh ya im clsoing this at the end of the weak coz i think im going to do my analysis next week so if u wanna take part or still to send bk then plz do asap
but knowing me i wont finish everything until the deadline (22 dec)

[alilbitoflauren]

I will so it for you @buttons

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im in the middle of writing this up but i got my results done @Shar; @Kyle;

i had 28 social scientists 28 non social scientists
there was no significant difference in attitudes between the two groups and all individual attitude scores were pretty low. the higher your score, the more negative your attitude is towards those with mental health

4 themes i found throughout the data were:
1) attitudes based on personal experience
2) attitudes based on the type of disorder in question
3) attitudes based on comparison to the "non mentally ill"
4) attitudes based on the impact of others' disorders on the self

hope that makes sense!

got approval for my dissertation so will be posting a new thread sometime soon on INTERNET ADDICTION AND DEPRESSION fun

[FlyingJesus]

But isn't that the opposite of what you said would happen so you need to doctor the results to make it look like you were right

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i assumed there would be a difference yeah but no lol just reject my hypothesis and in discussion will use the themes to explain attitudes towards mental health so would say how my data concludes that personal experience, types of disorders, comparisons to non-mentally ill and impact on the self seem to be more important in producing our attitudes than the discipline they study.

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I would've been surprised if there was a difference tbh. I know scientists can be s**** (oh you're doing a social science, are you?) but not that bad haha.

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a hypothesis is only a hypothesis. it doesn't mean i believe it. i'm aware there are infinitely different reasons for our attitudes towards mental health but i had to do a project on attitudes between TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS based on previous research. my prediction was false and my data gave me alternative explanations into factors for attitudes towards mental health and that's a good thing.

all social research critiques their own work and everyone elses. they don't all adhere to the same belief or ask you to do the same.

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oh I know, I meant I'd have been surprised if your results proved it was true

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it was quite close to being a significant different actually but i think the reason it was higher in the second group was because less people had personal experience in that group. kinda makes sense that some people studying social science/mental health disciplines is because of experience with it and wanting to understand it
but yeah ppl have this misconception that all social science is pseudoscience but its not. my fave thing to do is critique peoples research lol


anywayyyyyyyyy my hypothesis for my dissertation is "there will be a relationship between levels of internet usage and symptoms of depression" (wanted to do mental health but she said to be specific so went for one with more research) we'll see if that one's true