Skewed Results?

One thing I found to be very interesting during class lately had to do with the reading of Power and focus: self-representation of female college athletes by Vikki Krane, Sally R. Ross, Montana Miller, Julie L. Rowse, Kristy Ganoe, Jaclyn A. Andrzejczyk and Cathryn B. Lucas. This reading was study done on how college female athletes personally wanted to be represented in photographs, however “athletes were told, (1) the research team was developing a photo essay titled This is a Female Athlete, which would be shown to younger athletes in subsequent research and (2) during this photo shoot, you will have full control over how you will appear in the photographs, including the location, attire and poses for the photographs” (pg 7). If these athletes knew these photos would be shown specifically to younger athletes that immediately skews how they are going to dress and pose. I do not think that the athletes should have been told that these photos would be shown to anyone specifically. If the research team had said these photos would be shown to attractive, eligible college men would they have posed or dressed differently? Since these athletes went into these photo shoots knowing that their audience was a younger generation I do strongly believed that it changed the overall results of the study, and that more research should be done on how female athletes truly want to be shown in photographs.

Jennifer B
Kin 338i section 6