CHIN 3102 Chapter : Module 3 Quantitative Data Collection Analysis
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Luke h. zylstra, criminal justice, student cohort crj 130, richmond, center-south. This is a student paper submitted on april 26, 2010, to fulfill course requirement for. Research methods (psy/ soc/ crj 3014), module 3- quantitative data collection & analysis. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to luke h zylstra, jr. , In 1971 philip zimbardo, a professor of social psychology at stanford university, conducted a remarkable experiment attempting to accurately depict recidivism rates in those times. With the help of several colleagues, zimbardo created a mock prison is the basement of. Of the 70 or so students who answered his ad for volunteers, zimbardo chose two dozen mature, emotionally stable, intelligent young men and they were considered to be the. "cream of the crop of this generation" (zimbardo, 1972). After a flip of a coin, half of the test subjects were designated as prisoners and the rest served as guards.
