Jun 30, 2014 21:26
9 yrs ago
English term
scarred women and allergy women
English
Social Sciences
Psychology
To be honest I don't know if I can state a question like this and how to ask this question but it seems that I don;t understand who is who in the extract below (for me the text is not clear). There is this experiment with a group of women who agreed to have a scar for experimental reasons but the scar was removed (without their knowledge) and they still thought they had this scar. there was also a control group who seemed to be an allergy group.
'Then each of these women, thinking she was showing a disfiguring scar, talked with another woman who saw no disfigurement and had no idea of what had gone on before. The conversations were poignant. Thinking they looked horrible, these “scarred women” were very self-conscious. Compared to a control group of women, who were led to believe that their conversational partners merely thought they had an allergy, the “scarred women” rated their partners as more tense, distant, and patronizing. Neutral observers who watched the videotapes of these interactions could see no difference between how the “scarred women” and the “allergy women” were treated.' A. Christensen 'Reconcilable differences'
What is espaccially not clera is the sentence 'compared to a control group...' The control group thought that they conversational partners had an allergy - so the women with a scar? I'm lost here, perhpas you can help me...
'Then each of these women, thinking she was showing a disfiguring scar, talked with another woman who saw no disfigurement and had no idea of what had gone on before. The conversations were poignant. Thinking they looked horrible, these “scarred women” were very self-conscious. Compared to a control group of women, who were led to believe that their conversational partners merely thought they had an allergy, the “scarred women” rated their partners as more tense, distant, and patronizing. Neutral observers who watched the videotapes of these interactions could see no difference between how the “scarred women” and the “allergy women” were treated.' A. Christensen 'Reconcilable differences'
What is espaccially not clera is the sentence 'compared to a control group...' The control group thought that they conversational partners had an allergy - so the women with a scar? I'm lost here, perhpas you can help me...
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23 mins
George Rabel
TRANSLATIONS THAT READ LIKE ORIGINALS
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
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The allergy group is s a subset of the scarred women
My interpretation is that both groups of women thought they had scars, both one of the groups (the "allergy group) believed that their partners thought the scar was due to an allergy.
Allergy group: I have a scar and I think that you believe that the scar is due to an allergy, so it is probably temporary.
Scarred women: I have a scar, and I think that you believe it is permanent due to some non-allergy disease or injury.
Here's the original text: "
Compared to a control group of women, who were led to believe that their conversational partners merely thought they had an allergy." I believe that the "they" in the previous sentence refers to the subjects, and not to the partners. You quoted "The control group thought that they conversational partners had an allergy." Big difference!
Allergy group: I have a scar and I think that you believe that the scar is due to an allergy, so it is probably temporary.
Scarred women: I have a scar, and I think that you believe it is permanent due to some non-allergy disease or injury.
Here's the original text: "
Compared to a control group of women, who were led to believe that their conversational partners merely thought they had an allergy." I believe that the "they" in the previous sentence refers to the subjects, and not to the partners. You quoted "The control group thought that they conversational partners had an allergy." Big difference!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Discussion
In other words, the people who (wrongly) believed they were showing a scar behaved differently in the interactions compared to those people who only had what might have been 'allergy' symptoms.
Both the groups were interacting with another group of people, who were just the 'conversational partners'
And it was the 'scarred' women's perceptions of their conversational partner's attitude which was revealing about their own attitude cncerning their 'disfigurement'.