PSY 105: Introduction To Psychology REPLY

It is tough to chose one research method to fitacross all situations. Lets take one of the most controversial subject today:breastfeeding. Is "breast the best"? Correlational analysis works best in this case because overthe years researchers can associate correlations between breastfeeding andintelligence or breastfeeding and health or other naturallyoccurring situations from breastfeeding. The weakness of this research isthat we can't draw a causal conclusionlike an experimental study would allow,but a next experiment is notfeasible on this subject. I feel like the best method to fit across mostsituations is the descriptive method, because its strength is diversity.It gives us more room to explore by conducting surveys, case studies or just observe behavior, even if it doesn'tlet us control the variables. People love to watchpeople and draw conclusions. We like "people watching," this is why this term exists, but