DrDowling Is a Clinical Psychologist Who Is Interested in the Link

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Essay

Dr.Dowling is a clinical psychologist who is interested in the link between mental illness and criminal activity.She gets IRB permission to study patients at all five inpatient/residential mental health facilities in her state.There are 4,307 patients currently living in these facilities.She asks patients whether they have ever been arrested for a crime and whether they have ever been convicted of a crime.She collects a sample size of 1,369.She finds that 27% (+/- 3%)report having been arrested for a crime but that only 13% (+/- 3%)have been convicted of a crime.

-Name two populations of interest that Dr.Dowling could reasonably generalize her findings to.State which of these two populations her findings would be more generalizable to and explain why that is the case.

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