Statistical Method Decision Tree

Here is a very helpful decision tree for figuring out which statistical method should be used in the research study.

Culture and Value Orientation: Human Nature

I wanted to share what I was reading today in one of my textbooks (Clinical and Forensic Interviewing of Children and Families, by Jerome M. Sattler). Sattler cites earlier work by Luckhohn, 1958 and Speigel, 1982 in order to outline differences in cultural value orientations within five different areas. This this post paraphrases my notes on the first of the five areas.
1. Human Nature is composed of the following three value orientations:
a. Evil Orientation - This orientation holds that everyone is born with evil orientations that need to be controlled before they manifest themselves.
b. Good Orientation - Everyone is born good and there is no need for control because control would suppress the good from being manifested.
c. Mixed orientation - everyone of us is born with both evil and good orientations. Suppression is needed to keep the evil orientations from manifesting. On the other hand, encouragement and facilitation are also needed to allow the good orientations to manifest themselves.
My personal opinion: I believe that all of us are born with the capacity for both good and evil. As we grow and adapt, we begin to develop tendencies towards the things we find to be most effective in helping us succeed within the environment that we find ourselves.
Subsequent posts will cover the other four areas of of human value orientations:
2. Relationship between person and nature
3. Time history
4. Activity level
5. Social relations
If you have Sattler' book, you can find this on page 263.