WEAKNESSES

• WEAKNESSES OF ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES?

  • confounding variables
  • ethics
• WHAT WAS AN ISSUE WITH CONFOUNDING VARIABLES IN RUTTER'S STUDY?

  adoption vs control groups were not randomly assigned
• WHO'S STUDY HAD AN ISSUE OF CONFOUNDING VARIABLES?

  Rutter
• WHY IS THE LACK OF RANDOM ASSORTMENT AN ISSUE IN RUTTER'S ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDY?

  more sociable children may have been selected to be adopted, and children with more problems may have not
• WHAT DOES THE UNFAIR SELECTION OF CHILDREN IN RUTTER'S ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDY MEAN?

  no way of telling if institution caused effect, or if they were disabled from birth
• WHAT IS THE CONFOUNDING VARIABLE IN RUTTER'S STUDY?

  institution
• COUNTERARGUMENT FOR ETHICS?

  most of the research is ethical
• WHAT STUDY WAS NOT VERY ETHICAL?

  BEIP (Zeanah's)
• WHY WAS ZEANAH'S STUDY NOT VERY ETHICAL?

  randomly allocated the sample to foster homes or to remain in institutions which is ethically questionable