Comments | bermyseminole: Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo- yo

bermyseminole

Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo- yo

Oct 12, 2005 00:37

I just wrote my first paper in 6 months. Eh, it sucks, I'm not going to lie. But I'm just not that interested in the role of symbolic gestures for language acquisition in infants.

It was a nice little break, though :).

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chancellor_dcha October 13 2005, 04:58:53 UTC

Are the infants randomly selected in the U.S. or all over the world?

(hi ^_^ )

bermyseminole October 14 2005, 00:30:58 UTC

Actually, no. Only from a "middle class neighborhood in California." And get this- they had 22 babies- 20 white and 2 black. What about Hispanic babies? Asian babies? mixed race babies? Poor babies? Money-makin' babies? Can't we all just get along???

chancellor_dcha October 14 2005, 06:39:01 UTC

It depends where it is in California. Our class have the same issue: we're reading a book on how 4 yrs-old kids learn race and racism, and this researcher made a big general conclusion on racism based on... 20 kids in a single classroom. It's like, why should we believe you that all kids in the US behave the same? Sure, they might learn racism in an earlier stage, but these 20 kids can't represent half of the continent. It's not even statistically valid because it's not a random selection.