Gaining Status through the Purchases that People Make

Experiments and Results
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The press has mispresented the factual errors of the findings of the two doctors. The press released that there was a difference between all the extroverts and in the introverts. In the report given by the two doctors, they have specifically categorized those two groups into low income and high income. That is where their research indicates the difference. They concluded from the facts from the study of the spending of the people for over twelve months that those that who are low-income extroverts tend to spend much money on their status than low-income introverts (Landis & Gladstone, 2017). The report shows that the high-income introverts and the high-income extroverts show no much difference in the spending activities. The press release tries to depict that the extroverts spend a lot of their income to status-oriented items so that they can make friends which is not the said in the report. The report says that the people that live on low income spend the money on purchases that are perceived to be of high status because they do that to restore their self-integrity feelings. That is, they are compensating for the self-deficit that they feel. This claim of the press that the extroverts spend their income on materials for status is just correlational to the data that was collected because this data cannot be used to show why they do that.
The inference that has been derived between the spending of the low-income extroverts on status material and the fact that they are extrovert has come to be due to the extent that the two variables are related. The press indicated that a survey was done for twelve months on the people that were being studied on factors such as personality, employment, their income, and their age. This is the same way factors that the researchers used to do their research. These measures used in the survey were the best that they could use for the study since they were able to access their bank records and how they spend their money and know what kind of stuff that they buy. In the results that were found there are no rival explanations that were concluded. The interaction between income and extraversion always led to the way people status spent. In the article, the authors state that they faced the limitation by having samples that are non-representative and also getting data that is cross-sectional thus making their study a little bit hard. In the press release, they did not mention that the authors were faced with any kind of limitations while they were conducting their study. They just concentrate on the methods and the conclusions that were drawn from the study.
There were signs of pseudoscience in the press release they believe that if one is an extrovert, they are bound to waste their money to build their status and make friends and introverts should not be concerned that introversion is a problem as science has proved otherwise. There are no signs of biases in the report. The authors wrote the results that they got from the study that they did and also the press released the reports as they understood them. The press release is false and does not portray what is in the report that was written the doctors. The press release sa...