A peace psychologist collects transcripts of 30 speeches delivered by a national leader in the six months before a major war.She is interested in testing the hypothesis that the leader's speeches promoted aggression in the lead up to the war, a hypothesis that the leader strongly denied in a major television interview after retiring from politics.Which of the following statements is false?
A)This is not valid research as it is politically biased (peace psychologists are obviously opposed to war).
B)The coding system might involve breaking the speeches into units that can be rated by independent coders in terms of the degree that they promote war.
C)This is valid research because war is wrong.
D)It would be desirable to train the coders in the use of the coding scheme but in doing to make sure that bias is not introduced into the scoring procedure.
E)Both (a)and (c).

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Statements A and C are false because they both make assumptions about the validity of the research based on political or moral biases, rather than on the methodology or evidence. Valid research can be conducted on sensitive or controversial topics, and the validity depends on the research design, methodology, and analysis, not on the researcher's personal beliefs or the subject matter's moral implications.

A Peace Psychologist Collects Transcripts of 30 Speeches Delivered by a National