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Longitudinal Data Sets: Evidence for Ontogenetic Development or Chronicles of Cultural Change
Author(s) -
Schaie K. Warner
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1982.tb00842.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attrition , personality , cohort , set (abstract data type) , cognition , developmental psychology , social psychology , external validity , longitudinal data , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , data mining , medicine , mathematics , dentistry , neuroscience , programming language
Limitations of single‐cohort data sets are discussed, and their pitfalls are illustrated by means of a multiple‐cohort study of the cognitive ability of spatial orientation. The questions of gender differences in age changes and experimental attrition are further illustrated by examining a study of the questionnaire‐derived personality traits of social responsibility. Finally, implications are suggested for the internal and external validity of inferences drawn from analysis of the Ginzberg‐Yohalem data set.