semwal wrote:
MY QUESTION FOR MIKE COOL BOY- ISNT 'A' BETTER AS AN ANSWER THAN 'E'-
A) In both experiments, the victims of the filmed violence included both males and females. WEAKEN QUESTION CAN HAVE OUTSIDE INFO. BOTH EXPERIMENTS HAD VIOLENCE IN WHICH BOTH MALES AND FEMALES WERE VICTIMS. YET BOTH GROUPS BEHAVED DIFFERENTLY. THE REASON COULD' NT HAVE BEEN PRESENCE OF FEMALE AS THEY WERE PRESENT IN BOTH AND SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE TOO. HENCE WEAKENS CONCLUSION.
(E) The percentage of children known to have discipline problems prior to the experiment was greater in the first group than in the second group. THE CHILDREN OF FIRST GROUP WERE MORE INDISCILPLINED( MAYBE JUST 1% MORE)- NOT VIOLENT. SHELL GAME. INDISCIPLINED DOESNT MEAN VIOLENT. BUT THE STATISTICS OF THE RESULT WERE STARCKINGLY DIFFERENT. IT DOESNT WEAKEN THE CONCLUSION THAT VIOLENCE IN THE MOVIE CAUSED THEIR BEHAVIOUR , AS THEY DID., AFTER THE EXPERIMENT.
COMMENTS PLEASE. THANKS......
Just saying males and females present doesn't necessarily mean they're present in equal number.
WHAT IF GROUP A HAD 1 FEMALE AND 100 MALES, AND GROUP B HAD 100 FEMALES AND 1 MALE?
Doesn't this ratio kinda strengthen the argument?
Another point, 'THE REASON COULD' NT HAVE BEEN PRESENCE OF FEMALE AS THEY WERE PRESENT IN BOTH AND SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE TOO' -- it's nowhere mentioned that females were the subject of violence. the subjects have not been mentioned.
now it's mentioned that 'violent acts against others, such as punching, pushing, and kicking' and the indiscipline problems associated with children are generally the ones mentioned.
Now A says 'In both experiments, the victims of the filmed violence included both males and females.'
Which essentially means that 'hey if you thought that only males were present in the groups then wait! lemme tell you that In both experiments, the victims of the filmed violence included both males and females'
This is like trying to strengthen the argument by saying that both were present there so there's gotta be some other reason that males and females being present.