Handedness bias in preference rating scales

Article Abstract:

An examination of natural right and left-handed tendencies in ordering stimuli is conducted through two experiments. Results of the first experiment, which involved 'bench scaling,' revealed a strong preference for the left hand, while the second experiment revealed the influence of a left-hand preference in reversal and ordering discrepancies, inspite of a visual example and written and verbal instructions. Preference factors were also shown to unpredictably affect intensity ratings. These results underscore the need to check data from left-right scales methods for reversal errors.

Research, Left- and right-handedness, Handedness, Laterality, Left and right (Psychology)

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The truth was burned

Article Abstract:

The Miss America Pageant in 1968 was to become a platform by the women's liberation movement for their denunciation of the stereotyping of US women as beauty-contest winners. Women's lib organizers attracted the news media by throwing symbols of women's oppression such as steno pads, dish rags, diapers, girdles and brassieres into a 'Freedom Trash Can.' Although the articles thrown into the trash bin were never actually burned, the apocryphal bra burning at the pageant has become an accepted shorthand for trivializing the women's movement.

Demonstrations and protests, Portrayals, Women's rights, Feminism, Demonstrations, Miss America Pageant, 1968 AD

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Return of the crippler

Article Abstract:

Polio was eliminated as a major childhood disease in the US by the discovery of a vaccine in 1955, but those crippled by polio as children will become stricken again in old age. Case histories of a few of the 300,000 US adults with polio are given.

Poliomyelitis, Recurrence (Disease)

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