Hi! I need help with designing a psychology research study to test a hypothesis. Please see details below.?

I am looking for some clarification on this question: A researcher hypothesizes that "Adults will respond differently to the same baby depending on how the child is dressed." Her colleague hypothesizes that "Boys and girls are treated equally and that only temperamental differences lead to differences in their handling." Design a research study to test their hypotheses. Provide a detailed explanation of how this study would be conducted. So my query is do you think the question is asking for one study covering both of their hypothesis or two separate studies? What do you think.
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Answer:
It seems to me that you are being asked to come up with one study that will test both statements. The second hypothesis is the antithesis of the first: it essentially states the opposite.
The first researcher thinks that clothes make a difference in how a baby is treated. I'm not sure if the second hypothesis is referring to the baby's temperament or the adult's. If we assume that it refers to the baby, then the second researcher believes that it is how the baby acts that will determine how it is treated, not what the baby is wearing.
You can use one study to test both hypotheses. You would ideally have a random sampling of adults that includes all tax brackets and both parents and non-parents. You would also need two babies. Gender does not actually matter since it's difficult to tell the gender of any baby without looking at - well, you know. But one baby would have a calm temperament, and the other would be more active. You would also need a set of boy's clothes and a set of girl's clothes. Dress each baby in both sets of clothes and have the same person present each baby dressed as either a boy or a girl so that that person's behavior cannot be considered a variable in this experiment. Have another person inconspicuously taking notes on how the babies are treated. Does the calm baby get treated the same regardless of whether people think it's a boy or a girl? Or do people react differently because of the perceived gender of the baby? How does this compare to how the active baby is treated?
If any of this is really confusing, please e-mail me: kaadish@yahoo.com
I'm no college student, but I think this question calls for two different studies.
The first question seems to be unrelated to the second one, in that in the first one, the baby could be a girl dressed in two different outfits and in the second one, it is more about the gender of the child.
The first question doesn't have anything to do with temperament either.

Then again, the question says "Design a research study" in the singular, so I don't know. =/
10 babies randomly dressed in blue or pink.
100 subjects, video the subjects, observe.
MIKE

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