Conflicting Viewpoints Essay

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When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking by playing the “Believing Game.” The Believing Game is about making the effort to “believe” – or at least consider – the reasons for an opposing view on an issue.
First read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes: “The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful” at http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf. Next, you will review the Procon.org Website in order to gather information. Then, you will engage in prewriting to examine your thoughts.

Part I – Prewriting: Follow the instructions below for this prewriting activity. Use complete sentences and adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Select one (1) of the approved topics from the www.procon.org Website and state your position on the issue.
From the Procon.org Website, identify three (3) premises (reasons) listed under either the Pro or Con section – whichever section opposes your position.
For each of the three (3) premises (reasons) that oppose your position on the issue, answer these “believing” questions suggested by Elbow:
What’s interesting or helpful about this view?
What would I notice if I believed this view?
In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?”

the impact of gender and physical attractiveness on employability

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Double spaced, 11-point Arial font. Size 12 font.
You will need to conduct a Psychology research report focusing on the question: The impact of gender and physical attractiveness on employability.

The report must meet these guidelines greatly below to achieve a high grade. I am looking for a 2:1 grade and if this is met to a high standard I will write an outstanding view for yourself! I will be a returning customer if my coursework is written well, understandable and precise.

Title:
Concise and informative. The title should reflect the main objectives and design of the study

Abstract:
Structured abstract summarising the study with the following subheadings: background; aims; sample; method; results; and conclusions.

Introduction:
Concise review of relevant psychological literature that leads to a clear rationale for the study. The aims and hypotheses should be clearly stated and derived logically from the literature reviewed. (great detail with previous literature please)

Method:
Clearly described method section using appropriate subheadings. i. Clear description of design ii. Details of participants/sampling iii. Details of equipment/materials/tests iv. Procedure and instructions v. Ethical issues and how they were addressed.
Prior to completing the questionnaire, each participant should read a participant information sheet. They should also be given a debriefing sheet.

Results:
i. Statement of findings and relevance to hypotheses ii. Presentation of data in tables and/or figures iii. Appropriate application of analytical techniques.

Discussion:
i. Explanation of findings ii. Relationship to background research iii. Limitations and modifications iv. Implications and suggestions for further research.

References
All cited and in APA format! THIS IS ESSENTIAL!

Report style (Communication)
Adheres to APA/BPS publication conventions for report sections. Grammatically correct prose with use of appropriate tense and active voice contributes to the report’s cohesion and clarity. Originality and scientific quality.

Word count needs to be included at the end of the essay please.

Lecturers notes: Ideally, you should also examine the assumptions behind the analysis you perform. Don’t get too bogged down with this though. Remember that the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is sensitive to minor departures from normality with larger sample sizes. In other words, it will suggest that data aren’t normal when they probably are. This is likely to reflect a Type I error rather than a genuine departure from normality. Consequently, you may also wish to look at the skew and kurtosis coefficients when deciding whether your dependent variable(s) is/are normally distributed. You may also wish to visually inspect for normality and examine whether the means, medians and modes are similar.

(JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE REPORT IS ABOUT A LITTLE BETTER)
Print TWO COPIES of EACH questionnaire so that you have EIGHT in total. Please give EACH version of the questionnaire to ONE MALE and ONE FEMALE participant so that you collect data from EIGHT participants in total. For clarity, one male and one female participant should complete: the questionnaire featuring the more physically attractive male image; one male and one female should complete the questionnaire featuring the more physically attractive female image; one male and one female should complete the questionnaire featuring the less physically attractive male image; and one male and one female should complete the questionnaire featuring the less physically attractive female image.

* Data were collected from 2304 participants. This was reduced to 2264 after removing data from participants that had impossible values (i.e., those exceeding the actual range of scores) and those who had clearly completed more than one version of the questionnaire. They were then stratified according to condition (i.e., physical attractiveness and image gender) and a sample of 568 was taken from this.

The uploaded files should help you with understanding how it should be set out and what is needed.

Thankyou!

Identify argument in text

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Tom Chatfield’s Critical Thinking. Read the preface, pages 3-12.  (There is a summary starting at the bottom of pg. 15 and ending on pg. 16.) Read pages 23- 32 from chapter 1. (There is a summary starting on pg 34.) These pages cover basic concepts we will use in this course.

Finally read pages 43-54 from chapter 2, “Spelling Out Arguments and Their Assumptions” (summary at the end of chapter). You will apply the concepts from this chapter in your next writing assignment on social issues/social movements.

View book at the link provided below

https://www.book2look.com/book/7RgqTX22tX

The learning goal of this assignment is to apply concepts from the first two chapters of Chatfield’s Critical Thinking (reading assignment 2) using a social issue article. Complete these two steps:

1.    TOPIC:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/aocgreen-new-deal-new-era-millennial-climate-politics/582295/

2.    Identify a key argument in your text. Do this by a) reconstructing the argument in standard form, b) identify the premises and conclusion, and c) spell out assumption(s). You can write in informal paragraph form. 350 words max.

Marriage and Family

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Section 1: Introduction
This should be a brief set of paragraphs which define Marriage and Family.  What is unique about a sociological approach to studying marriage and the family? This section should include an explanation of the concepts of marriage, the family, the history of marriage and the family and ways in which Sociologists study marriage and the family.

Section 2: Defining Marriage and the Family
This section should systematically compare and contrast the legal/rational U.S. definitions of marriage and the family with Sociological definitions of marriage and the family. Additionally, discuss the ways in which marriage and divorce are measured by various rates. Find data pertaining to the rates of marriage and divorce using a .gov website and discuss what these rates mean and why they are important.