Profs Discredit Psych Research

Testing pools yield narrow results

According to a recent article published in The Wall Street Journal, many feel that psychological research departments on college campuses operate with too narrow a testing pool. The article asserts that the strict use of college students as study subjects provides only a slim demographic for research, ultimately limiting research findings.

At a university like Cornell, where students always have the opportunity to sign up for psychological experiments, the controversy is especially compelling.

“Psychologists have traditionally always used the population that is most available to them,” said Prof. David Smith, psychology.