Summarize the pros and cons of administering growth hormones to children.
What will be an ideal response?
- Tallness is clearly valued in the United States and other cultural contexts. Parents of children who are of shorter stature may worry that such children will be disadvantaged in life, and therefore may take steps to rectify that situation.
- Growth hormones allow children to be taller than they naturally would, and such supplements are given to children who have insufficient natural growth hormone. These children may grow to be within normal height ranges.
- Children who just happen to be short, however, do not have a biological or functional need to be taller. Moreover, growth hormones are expensive, could have dangerous side effects, and may hasten puberty.
- Currently there is not enough long-term research evidence to make a fully informed decision regarding the benefits and disadvantages of growth hormones for children.
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__________ is consistency of measurement
A) Random assignment B) Validity C) Reliability D) Confounding variable
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a. the severe allergic reaction.
b. the bee sting.
c. the buzzing sound.
d. Colin's reacting nervously and panicking.
e . people imitating a buzzing sound.
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