Practical 12D

• Our social practical aimed to determine whether males or females had a higher perceived obedience in social situations.
• We created a self report questionnaire with 10 questions; 1 qualitative open answer question, 9 quantitative closed questions with 2 fillers and a reverse scoring question.
• We sampled our participants through an opportunity sample sending the questionnaire, with a consent form to friends and family ,of surbiton high school students, between the ages of 16 and 60. 
• We collected 24 participants, picking the most recent 10 males and 10 females to remove researcher bias.
• After receiving the data we found the mean,median, mode, range and standard deviation of the quantitative data, removing the data from the filler questions and reversing the score of the reverse scoring question
• We used thematic analysis to determine the results of the qualitative data through using themes and codes.
• We concluded after our study that men has a higher perceived obedience with a standard deviation of (21.3) and women with (18.6) however we did find that men had higher individual differences due to the  dispersion being (4.4)
• generalisability; strength we used participants of a range of ages which would mean that our study would be more representative of the wider population
• Generalisability Weakness; our opportunity sample was only sent to friend as and family of pupils of surbiton high school so didn’t include a range of people from maybe different economic backgrounds, different locations etc
• reliability the questions and procedure was standardised so that study can be repeated to find consistent results
• Reliability Weakness some forms were sent last minute through ways other than email this could potentially make procedure less standardised
• A application strength was looking at real life situations
• Application Weakness wasn’t a true representation of how men and women’s would act in a real situation
• validity strength we controlled the IV the gender and DV the level of perceived obedience and there was no other contributing factors
• Validity Weakness would be that we should have further research after the self report questionnaire looking into measuring perceived obedience via observation rather than just self report