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By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Tyler Cowen is unimpressed with this scholarly article: There is inadequate understanding about why people might not own pets. This qualitative study asked eight elderly women and men to discuss why they do not have a pet, whether pets were deemed beneficial to health, and whether they had plans for future pet ownership. Reasons for not owning a pet were Emotional or Pragmatic; Pragmatic reasons were categorized as relating to Convenience, Negative aspects of companion animals and Competing demands on time or energy. Participants expressed mixed feelings in their plans for future pet ownership. Clinical and research implications of these findings are discussed.I'll match Cowen with this one, purporting to analyze the practice of high-stakes testing in schools: This study examined elementary students' perceptions of high-stakes testing through the use of drawings and writings...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on December 06, 2008 (boomark / email).