How does a cultural bias affect results?
It definitely can depend on what the survey is asking. Naturally, you’ll want as random of a sample as possible however given your environment, you must work with what you can. In essence, you are right, in some ways, Catholics are raised in a different environment than others. They may have different values, different parenting styles etc. This can effect your results in ways you may or may not expect. The person who says this stereotyping is quite wrong. You are being careful with your analysis and that is exactly how you should go about it. Asking if there is a cultural bias involved with a SCIENTIFIC SURVEY is not wrong or bad, it’s just doing science. As for how your results are affected, because your sample is not random, your results will be skewed. You might find that on certain questions, the answers are pooled in one direction where you expected it to be more moderate or in the other extreme. It all depends on what the survey asks. My advice to you is to look very carefully a
… That’s just stereotyping right there, assuming people are different and can be described with a few characteristics and assuming other people know what these characteristics are…depends on your survey…Most psychological surveys shouldn’t have anything to do with religion really…most religious people are not fanatical enough to have their faith affect their thinking process or judgement. Especially for the younger generation, it’s more of a social/traditional thing… Since your survey included a “tick here if you’re catholic” I guess it does have something to do with religion though, maybe. You can’t shift your results based on intuitive pidgeonholing, give out more surveys and get a more rounded sample group. The point of a survey is not to guess and write down what you think you know, it’s to pore through large boring amounts of data and then infer and analyze from there.
