Analyzing the Results of Two Research Studies

This discussion task is designed to help you learn how to analyze research studies on your own topic for WA #3.

To complete this task, you will read over the following two articles:

Dante E. Mancini, “The “CSI Effect’ in an Actual Juror Sample: Why Crime Show Genre May Matter.”

Janne A. Holmgren and Judith Fordham, “The CSI Effect and the Canadian and the Australian Jury.”

To access the articles, please take the following steps:

• click Content
• select Class Resources
• select eReserves
• select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
• in the list of items that appears, locate the articles and download them.

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After you find these two articles, please read them over and complete the following tasks for each one:

• list the source in APA format
• list key terms in the article
• describe the focus of the study
• describe the methodology the author(s) used
• summarize the study's findings
• write your reflections on the article itself.  Comment on whether you found the study difficult to interpret, whether you understood the methodology, or other items that might be of interest to your fellow classmates.