Question

This week you will utilize your understanding of critical thinking and the scientific method to test proverbs. For this assignment, you need to:

• identify the theory that underlies the proverb or rule of thumb, and
• generate a testable hypothesis, and suggest a possible strategy (descriptive, correlational, or experimental) to test the hypothesis. You need to fully explain your research strategy. If the method is experimental, you should identify independent and dependent variables and specify operational definitions.

Examples of proverbs include:

• “Birds of a feather flock together.”
• “Opposites attract.”
• “The grass is always greener on the other side.”
• “A letter takes three times as long to write as it does to say.”
• “The more languages you know, the easier it is for you to learn a new one.”
• “Wearing dark clothes on the bottom and light clothes on the top is usually more visually appealing than the reverse.”
• “It takes four hours to come down from your last cup of coffee.”
• “As family income rises, the ratio of women’s shoes to men’s shoes increases accordingly.”
• “The self-employed are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who work for others.”
• “The shorter a word, the more meanings it has.”
• “Don’t change your first guess on a multiple-choice test when checking over your answers.”

You are not limited to this list of proverbs, these are provided to give you some ideas.

Answer 1

"The self-employed are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who work for others"

Researches have proven that people who are self employed tend to have more job satisfaction because they experience autonomy, flexibility and utilization of skills in their work and also have a greater job security. Having a self employed job is perceived to have more engagement in work, increased control of work environment, and freedom to innovate in the job. Many researches and evidences have proven that people live longer when they experience good emotional well being. A research on this estimated that people who are happy had a 35% less risk of death when compared to people who were unhappy. So, when people do the job that they are satisfied with, they tend to feel more happy.

Hypothesis: People who are self-employed will live longer than the people who work for others.

Research design: Descriptive

Research method: Survey

This research hypothesis is tested by using a survey method, in which the samples are surveyed and the information regarding their age and type of work (self employed or working for others) are obtained. The samples consists of 1000 old age people who are selected by a process of probability sampling. The researcher then collects data from the samples and then evaluates the data. From the data, the researcher will conclude by comparing which group, whether the people who are self employed or the people who work for others have the highest average age. Based on these results, the hypothesis is accepted or rejected.