The following objectives were stated for this investigation: (1) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between incarcerated male and female adults. (2) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between male personal offenders and male property offenders. (3) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between female personal offenders and female property offenders. (4) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between male personal offenders and female personal offenders. (5) To determine if there is a significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between male property offenders and female property offenders. / The sample consisted of 234 incarcerated adults from two offender rehabilitation units. The sample included 41 male personal offenders, 107 male property offenders, 36 female personal offenders and 50 female property offenders. All subjects were reading at the 4.5 reading grade level or higher. The reading means of the groups were approximately equal. The Fallacies in Reasoning Test (FRT), a 49 item multiple choice, four option test designed by Gall (1973) and revised by Culyer (1973), Spivak (1974), Hurst (1977), Mosley (1978) and Gowdy (1979), whose dissertations were done at Florida State University, was used to assess critical reading ability. / The following conclusions were drawn: There was no significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between incarcerated male and female adults and there was no significant difference in the ability to detect written fallacies in reasoning between personal offenders and property offenders. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-12, Section: A, page: 5076. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74710 |
| Contributors | SPAULDING, RUTH WALKER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 88 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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