An Audience of 20-Year-Olds Finds a Series of Off-Colour Jokes

question 5

Multiple Choice

An audience of 20-year-olds finds a series of off-colour jokes highly amusing.A group of 50-year-olds finds the same jokes highly offensive.It is concluded that,as people age,their senses of humour become more rigid and narrow.The major difficulty in drawing conclusions of this sort is that _______.

• A)longitudinal studies cannot distinguish between age differences and generational differences
• B)cross-sectional studies cannot distinguish between age differences and generational differences
• C)longitudinal studies cannot distinguish between age differences and differences in the time at which measurements are taken
• D)cross-sectional studies cannot distinguish between age differences and differences in the time at which measurements are taken

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