Student Challenges Researchers to Incorporate Multiculturalism into Work
May 9th, 2010
Though research in psychology in the United States often attempts to make critical and even broad statements about people’s lives and behaviors, the vast majority of such research is conducted with American participants and data samples that may exclude a generous portion of the world’s population. This issue has been recently highlighted in the dissertation of a student at the University of Missouri, who notes that working with other researchers and data sets across cultures can provide more accurate and relevant results. The student focused his own research on Taiwanese behaviors and collaborated with a researcher from Taiwan, resulting in a demonstration of how certain experiences and ideas cannot be universally applied.
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A very intelligent idea I would say. While this is quite obvious, nobody else had thought of or implemented it earlier and it is an idea worth being taken up and actually implemented.
I agree with this guy completely.After all,we are just 5% of the global population and it is quite obvious that things are not universal,as has been proved in many ways over the course of time.And even if it comes down to ethnicity,we still are quite low in percentage of the global population.
Single minded research leads to single minded conclusions. The need to incorporate different cultures and standards into research h lomg been known but has been rarely implemented. Good for this kid who is taking this idea and running with it to create hopefully better methods for learning and for healing for people who live outside of the Western world.
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