RESEARCH STUDY 13

Essay

RESEARCH STUDY 13.4: Dr.Fletcher is interested in understanding whether joining a fraternity/sorority causes people to become more concerned about their attractiveness and appearance.He recruits a group of 55 freshmen (25 males, 30 females) who are planning to go through fraternity/sorority recruitment on his campus.After they join, he gives them a measure of attractiveness concern/appearance concern (the Body Concern Scale, where higher scores indicate higher body concerns).
In addition to measuring the group of participants who joined a fraternity/sorority, Dr.Fletcher decides to give the same measure to another group of 55 participants who decided to not join a fraternity/sorority.Based on the results below, explain whether Dr.Fletcher should be concerned about a history threat to internal validity.