CMN 10V Final Exam Review Advanced Test.

CMN 10V Final Exam Review Advanced Test.Read the abstract carefully a couple of times--it contains the essence of the article (Gender and communication) - correct answer - Books like "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", and "You just don't understand: Women and Men in conversation" both of these works and dozens of other like them have argued for the differences hypothesis, that males and females are, psychologically, vastly different. The author on the other hand is advancing a different view, the gender similarities hypothesis. What is the gender similarities hypothesis? - correct answer • The Gender similarities hypothesis holds that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variable • That is, men and women, as well as boys and girls, are more alike than they are different. • In terms of effect sizes, the gender similarities hypothesis states that most psychological gender differences are in the close to zero, or small range, a few in the moderate range, and very few are large. What is statistical meta-analysis? - correct answer • Statistical meta-analysis: this method revolutionized the study of psychological gender differences. Meta-analysis is a statistical method for aggregating research findings across many studies of the same question. • How it is applied to this article - correct answer • It is ideal for synthesizing research on gender differences, an area in which often dozens or even hundreds of studies of a particular question have been conducted. • Crucial to meta-analysis is the concept of effect size, which measures the magnitude of an effect, in this case the magnitude of gender difference. • Gender meta-analyses generally proceed in four steps 1. The researcher located all studies on the topic being reviewed, typically using databases such as psycINFO and carefully chosen search terms 2. Statistics are extracted from each report and an effect size is computed for each study 3. A weighted average of the effect sizes is computed to obtain an overall assessment of the direction and magnitude of the gender differences when all studies were combined 4. Homogeneity analyses are conducted to determine whether the group of effect sizes is relatively homogenous. What is the concluding point about inspection of effect sizes when examining the evidence of the article? - correct answer • Inspection of the effect sizes shown reveals strong evidence for the gender similarities hypothesis. • Of the 128 effect sizes, 4 were unclassifiable because the meta-analysis provided such a wide range for the estimate.