Extra credit

 

Brenna’s study was attempting to gauge whether the picture of a family(white or black) will influence the responses of participants who are asked to respond with their opinions on various prompts about welfare.

The study basically consisted of the participant being handed a packet with articles about welfare and guns, and then being asked to respond to some basic prompts. (Do you believe guns are necessary for self-defence, etc.)
The independent variable is the color of the family on the picture on the article about welfare.
And the dependent variable is the various responses.

 

The goal was a correlational study that seeks to determine whether the presence of a black family vs a white family will have any effect upon participants’ responses on the questionaire. Correlation does not imply causation, however, and I don’t feel as though this study did enough to prove whether there was any relationship. There could be a third variable, such as students’ political philosophies.