February 20, 2005
Some Research Questions
I don't know what happened withthe formatting of that last entry -- that's what I get for thinking I know more HTML than "a href" etc.)
Anyway, what research questions? I think what I'll do is create a category for the various research questions I have.
Here are some of them:
1) What kinds of resources exist for couples grappling with the kinds of questions we have had? e.g., housework, finances, etc. (see below) How different or similar are they to what we have in mind? That is, is it advice by experts? How much testimony/description do they have from couples versus expert voices.
2) What kinds of quantitative research exists on how couples solve the problems we pose (e.g., "how many couples use a chart of some kind to divide up housework?"). I want to stay away from quantitative research; Chris thinks it would be interesting to have quantitative data. I'm hoping someone else has the data.
3) What DO the experts have to say?
Here are the problem/question areas we've defined so far:
- Housework (dividing chores, resolving different standards)
- Sex (differing sexual drives and preferences)
- Money (paying bills, inequity in earning power, spending habits)
- Family (in laws, the decision to have children, rearing children)
- Everything else people argue about! (religion, politics, pets, fitness, culture, sleep, food, and other sources of conflict)
- Staying together and breaking apart (for long-term couples: how they decided to stay together, for those who break up, how they did so – might need to be its own book!)
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