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Originally Posted by DrPhil
LOL. Yes, that is also a point of conducting such research. Do people who already know you change their behaviors of you? If so, how so? How were you treated; and how can that possibly be compared to how others have been treated?
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Hmmmm....I see it as "valuable" in this vein only. I'm sure she is very proud of her efforts--she put in a lot more dedication to her senior project than any high schooler I know. However, I do agree that the reactions were very much tailored to her so I have doubts as to how much this can be generalized. I was particularly intrigued by her saying that someone made the statement, "Well, it was bound to happen." Bound to happen to whom? To a girl who had a long-term boyfriend? To a girl who was fast? To her, Gaby? Depending on how the reactionary comments were meant, they could illuminate how people feel about a particular type of teenager (and like it was said on the first page, those are sucky yet expected reactions) or if they were all personalized, then the only person who would be enlightened is the girl who did it. Now she knows what others think of her. That's great but it's not the big step toward change that she said she hoped she made.
And I agree about the boyfriend's parents being let in on the secret. There probably was a huge sense of loss after 6 months of thinking you're going to have a grandchild then finding out in a moment that it's not happening. Relief, too but the loss would be there.
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