- Observer's parardox: we intend to ask females aged between 18 and 25 to explain to us their morning and see how closely their account corresponds to Lackhoff's theories regarding how females speak. Although this research is not unethical mentally or physically, we will have to tell the women we question that we are recording their answer and ask them to sign a consent form, in order to maintain completely ethically sound research. Unfortunately, this may lead to the interviewees altering how they respond to try and fit in with, or reject, the research motive.
- We only intend to interview 10 women, which is rather a small sample size that could potentially end in skewed results. Unfortunately, to start interviewing a bigger sample of women may eat into research time we don't have and result in us falling behind.
- There is also the bigger question of whether Lackhoff is still relevant to how modern women talk. Her study is now 36 years old and it seems only natural that much of her research may be at least slightly outdated. Despite this, Lackhoff was one of the first to really research how women's speech is different to that of men's, so it makes sense that we use her study as the basis of our research.
The group intends to analyse these problems and present a blog post on the ways in which we will work around them at a later date in the research process.
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