does not provide information on how the subjects were chosen, their age, race or gender. Since we do not know how the subjects were chosen, it is not possible to determine whether the experiment was a quasi or a true experiment.Not only does the article fail to provide important information on the sample, it also lacks information pertaining to the studys methods. We can, however, infer that he study must have been correlational. This is because neither mental illness nor type of profession can be manipulated as an independent variable and causation cannot be established. Only by inference do we know that the study is retrospective. Since the subjects must have lived a large portion of their lives in order to see patterns of creativeness and mental illness, we can assume that the researchers needed to look back at records to gather their information. We do not know anything else about how information on the subjects was collected or evaluated. Because of the limited sample and method information, ethical issues may be present, but are not apparent.Talans limited account of Ludwigs study makes it appear to be unreliable. The article mentions the results of Ludwigs study, but we dont know what they really mean because we dont know enough about the sample or the design. Since we dont know much about the sample, the studys reliability is low because generalizations cannot be made for the population as a whole. We also dont know enough about how the study was conducted. Talon did not mention anything about methods or procedures. For all we know, the data could have been gathered very carelessly. If this were the case, validity would be low, and the results could not be trusted. The overall problem with this article is that it may mislead the reader by making him think the results can easily be applied to his own life.Since this article is reporting on a psychological study, lets look at a real scientific article studying the sam...
