¶ … existence of tastes among groups of people is essential to many fields, which include psychology, sociology, demography, politics, and marketing. Such studies allow us to establish mean tastes and preferences, whether we want to analyze a correlation in order to understand cognitive behavior better, or generate revenue models that will cater to the buying power of the greatest number of people. In this assignment, I will develop two studies that may be used to determine in one case the correlation between certain religious beliefs and mental instability and in another whether successful students prefer different beverages than unsuccessful ones.
Are certain types of religious beliefs associated with mental instability?
Freud first observed that many of his patients that suffered from various neuroses also maintained somewhat compulsive religious beliefs. However, a determination could be made between expressing obsessive behavior and applying it to religious matters and maintenance certain specific religious beliefs that may or may not be associated with mental instability.
In order to conduct a study, we must first establish what is meant by mental instability and establish a Boolean argument as to whether or not someone is mentally unstable. Characteristics that would lead us to make this distinction might include the inability to carry on a conversation, a predilection to violence,...
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