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Why Researchers Don't Study Women: The Responses of 62 Researchers.
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Prescott, Suzanne – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1978
The five types of reasons researchers gave for or against choosing a particular sex for research subjects were: (1) subject availability; (2) presumed subject trait, characteristic, or response; (3) a favorable experimental condition; (4) wish to limit subject by experimenter interaction; (5) desire for comparability with previous research.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Bias, Experimenter Characteristics, Females