When Moms Say Bad Words Summary

When Moms Say Bad Words: Family and Peer Influence on the Frequency of Swearing is a journal written by Emily Simpson, Joshua Duarte, and Brianna Bishop. This essay was published in the Undergraduate Research Journal of the University of Central Florida. The authors state that they had hypothesized peers would have a greater influence in swearing than anyone else in their life, but once conducting their investigation and seeing their results, it was actually proved that people’s mothers are the most influential in swearing. Although this study was solely conducted on college students which were also predominantly female. The authors also talk about how there were many factors that influenced the results they got, good and bad. In the end, they state that there are many changes to be made if this study goes further. So with that said, this was not the best sought out analysis.
The biggest problem with this study is their ineffectiveness in diversity. By not widening their participant’s criteria, the lack of diversity biased the results of the study. It is a known fact that young adults are more susceptible and vulnerable to peer pressure than any other age group in our society, yet the study was only conducted on college/university students. Not only was the study given

Because of the way the surveys were given, many of the participants’ results had to be removed because there was many room for mistakes, “55 participants were deleted from analyses” (Simpson). Of course this is not just a problem in this study, but in many studies because one will never accurately know if someone is truly telling the truth or not. Even in a controlled environment, there is room for mistakes but this study was done the best way it could be with the resources they