Statistics in the Media

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have been instructed to complete some three tasks. So, there are 3 tasks of activities for the first study assigned by experimenter. For the first task, candidates have to describe about personal strengths and weaknesses. Then each candidate has to share briefly and take turn in group about their answers. Second task, the group need to deliberated about an issue given by experimenter, imagine that everyone in this planet will have an extra thumb on each side of their hand. The last task is candidates need to do a group work in order to complete three GRE problems such as two math exercises and one verbal question. Lastly, each candidate has to rate themselves in a scale of 6 on their personal reflection. The goal for the first study is to compare and contrast self-rating of peer at both minimal acquaintance. As a result from the test, participant does not achieve statistically significant levels of consensus of Intellectual Humility.

The second study contains 108 students, which have 83 female students and 52 males. However, there are only 103 students agreed to participate in the study divided across 23 team groups.  Ages range is 19 to 30 , (M=21.08). The ethic of students are 49% White/ Caucasian, 9% of Asian/ Pacific Islander, 13% of Black/ African American, 24% of Hispanic and 5% of others race and ethnicity. The second task is allowing each of participant to complete the same survey like in study one but participant have to evaluate others. As a result, the survey show the statistically significant levels of consensus for both Intellectual arrogance and intellectual humility.

The Research contains many biases such as under coverage bias, convenient bias, lack of blinding bias, voluntary response bias and the sample is too small.

-Under coverage bias: The study has only a class 103 undergraduate psychology or a group of psychology student.

-Convenient sample: There are no outsider beside a big group of 103 psychology students.

-Lack of blinding: Survey is done by their group member or classmate not Professor or outsider.

-Voluntary response bias: Each candidate has an opportunity to rate themselves in a survey.

In addition, there is also an inaccuracy in the study because candidate do the survey for their teammates and for themselves and without any outsider judge to evaluate their score. People could be bias in doing survey for themselves and their teammate, because not every people will rate themselves in a truthful way. If someone in the group dislike others, the candidate tends to rate that person poorly.

Lastly, there are several pertinent information regarding the actual study that was excluded from the Huff Post Science news such as the process of conducting the two researches, it is not distinguish the sample, and it doesn’t define the key term of Intellectual Humility and Intellectual Arrogance. Furthermore, there are some missing part of the conceptual issue and the measurement issues in the study of humility. In the news, it also doesn’t not include the result briefly and the two method in conducting the test.