According to the article Going to Pot,about adolescent drug use, there are problems with cross-sectional
research.
One problem may be that you make an erroneous assumption that the younger participants will
become similar to the older participants. This assumption is likely to be untrue if you have a cohorteffect.
A cohort effect is when
(a) the behavior of one age group may be due to having lived through a "significant" life event that the other age groups will never experience
(b) a group experiences a feeling of "solidarity," although they share no true experiences
(c) everyone in the group grew up in the same neighborhood, so the similar findings are the result of contact with one another
(d) one group experiences a severe emotional trauma
A
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