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Prepare a formal letter to the parents with your recommendations. Include a copy of the worksheet you used with your notes to conduct the risk-benefit analysis.

Risk-Benefit Analysis of a Controversial Intervention Consider this scenario: The principal of a local school learned about a facility in Massachusetts that uses an electric shock device as a behavior control procedure. For more information on this device, review the Linscheid et al. article. The principal has requested that parents of one of her school’s […]

Describe how social media plays into the intent and the actual message. What’s different between the two you chose? What made the ads successful (or not successful)?

We have been looking at successful ad campaigns using social media. Let’s apply this directly and see how this compares with older methods of advertising. Choose a recent social media campaign, possibly one you interacted with. Below are some possible examples: ALS #IceBucketChallenge Always #LikeAGirl Coca-Cola #ShareaCoke IKEA bookbook video McDonald’s Super Bowl 2015 Taco […]

Selection of a Statistical Analysis Approach

Though data analysis occurs after the study has completed a data collection stage, the researcher needs to have in mind what type of analysis will allow the researcher to obtain an answer to a research question. The researcher must understand the purpose of each method of analysis, the characteristics that must be present in the […]

How does the influence of social media impact concepts like personal fable, invincibility fable, egocentrism, etc.? What are the benefits to social media? (think about technology as a whole as well)

The term “boomerang generation” has been used to refer to children who move back in with their parents after finishing college, graduate school, or some other form of “adult life.” There are numerous articles devoted to this phenomenon. Read the following articles that offer diverse perspectives on the boomerang generation and then answer the questions […]