Vien is working on a study that asks whether a college education is more highly valued by working-class or middle-class people.

Vien is working on a study that asks whether a college education is more highly valued by working-class or middle-class people. He posts fliers all over his college campus asking for volunteers to be interviewed about the degree to which they think a college education is important. After analyzing his data, he concludes that working-class people actually put higher value on education than middle-class people. What is a possible critique of Vien’s study?

multiple choice answers

1.Because middle-class students are more likely to attend college, he probably interviewed too many middle-class students and not enough working-class students, thus skewing his results.

2.Because of the barriers to higher education for working-class students, it is likely that those working-class students who do attend college place a higher value on it than those who don’t and thus do not necessarily reflect working-class values in general.

3.Students who really value a college education are not very likely to spend time being interviewed, since they are likely to spend most of their time studying.

4.Because college is so expensive and going to school full time makes it difficult to make time for work, there are very few college students who can be considered middle-class at all.