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Comment #272094 by Lumifish
It might be difficult but it's not impossible. You don't have to control for every possible exposure to fantasy that the controlgroup gets.
You just read fantasy stories at bedtime to one group for say, a year, and other types of stories to the controlgroup. Presumably the uncontrolled 'daytime' fantasy exposure in the two groups would be the same and so cancel eachother out. The hard part would be getting the parents to cooperate in such a study.
Permalink Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:55:00 UTC | #258464