Evaluating Cross Cultural Research Hypotheses Assignment

Assignment Task

Questions

• Does the theory “make sense” for all the cultures being tested in the study?
• Are the hypotheses meaningfully equivalent for all participants?
• Is the design appropriate for the question being addressed?
•  Are the subjects adequate representatives of their culture?
• Is culture operationalized according to socio-psychological constructs?
• Are the subjects equivalent for comparison purpose no other characteristics or demographic confounds?
• Are the concepts being measured equivalent in all cultures in the study?
• Do the scales, subscales, and items being used have the same reliability and validity characteristics in all cultures in the study?
• Are the scales/constructs contextualized meaningfully for all subjects?
• Do subjects come to the laboratory or complete testing procedures with equivalent expectations?
• Is procedural equivalence established across nuisance parameters of the study?
• Did the researchers establish linguistic equivalence in their methods and research protocols by using back-translation procedures?

Data and Analyses

• Do subjects provide data on a level of measurement that is meaningful to them while at the same time equivalent across cultures?
• Are there cultural response sets operating in the data set?
• Do the researchers take adequate steps to check for cultural response sets and control them if necessary?
• If cultural differences are found, do the researchers provide an index of the size of those differences (effect size statistics)?

Interpretations and Conclusions

• Are the interpretations of the findings bound by the cultural filters and biases of the researcher or of the theories?
• Do the researchers make value judgments based on the findings?
• How do the findings contribute to our knowledge with regard to cultural influences on the target variables of interest?
• How would changes in any aspect of the methodology affect the outcomes of the study (for example, cultural or demographic backgrounds of the participants, or methods of measuring key variables)?
• Can the findings be used by some to foster stereotypes of members of the cultures represented in the study?
• Can the findings be used by some to foster prejudice or discrimination against members of the cultures represented in the study?

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