Where can I find peer reviews to supposed a naturalist observation
with the hypothesis that, Women take more pictures than men. I need 5
articles and they must com from professional journals, no abstracts.

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Request for Question Clarification by webadept-ga on 18 Jul 2002 22:33 PDT

Hi, 

Professional journals of this caliber are generaly fee based, or at
least you have to be a subscriber to the journal to access the
databases. We don't have access to these and certainly can't post the
referances to this website in complete form. Would papers from
Universities be acceptable?

Also, the two comments below bring up some good points, could you
comment on those as well?

Thanks,

webadept-ga

I searched my school library's database of peer-reviewed journal
articles, which goes back to 1986. (It's not accessible to the general
public; sorry.) I found nothing that would support your hypothesis.

I know that's not the answer you're looking for. Perhaps you can turn
it into your own research project. Note that there are two ways to
interpret your question:

1. Does the average woman take more pictures than the average man?

2. Of the total number of pictures taken, are more taken by women than
men?

Good luck.

Queenie,

It is generally easier (and more in accord with accepted scientific
method) to proceed from data sources toward the hypothesis, rather
than in the opposite direction, from "naturalist observation" to
supportive data which may or may not exist.

Perhaps, if your project permits it, you could shift to a
forward-chaining method in preparing your materials, starting by
reading peer-review articles on your general subject, then forming
your hypothesis based upon the information you have gleaned from the
articles.