ferent perspective and be “further along in the game” than parents aged in their thirties. The parents chosen for this particular sample had attended a Psychology course at an urban university. Firstly, if this study had been conducted in a rural environment, would the same results be found? If I had conducted this experiment, I would have not limited it to a particular area. Secondly, the fact that the parents attended a psychology class may have biased their answers to the questionnaire by answering what they thought the experimenter was looking for. I thought that a questionnaire was a good way of collecting this type of data, however I think that a questionnaire should also have been given out to the children of these parents to see if they felt that birth order effected their parents expectations of them. Qualitative methods should also have been employed to collect data. The data that resulted from this research study supported the inferences that were drawn for the most part, but if I were to conduct this study, I would add what I mentioned above to reduce the margin of error and I wouldn’t limit my research to a specific area or type of people....
