Correlation, Causation, And Smoking Initiation Among Youths
Marvin E. Goldberg Penn State University
TRIANGULATION AND CAUSALITY
In critiquing my article 'American Media and the Smoking-related Behavior of Asian Adolescents' (Goldberg. 2003). both Taylor and Bonner (2003) and Reitter (2003) have ignored the logic associated with the research strategy of triangulation. Reitter suggests that my purpose in conducting a correlational study was to 'supplement and give additional precision' to a study using an experimental design that can lay claim to...