Psychological research - Atheists, Christians and quality of life

[rozle27]

Any reason why you focus on recent experience? Seems to have a greater propensity for variation (and therefore error margin) than an "on average" question.

I have had a few people pointing out such problems with the survey. The only reason it asks about the last few weeks is simply that I used questions from an already-devised measure of quality of life. It is a measure which has been supposedly tested and deemed both reliable and valid.

I do, however, understand your point completely! It would possibly make sense to try and get a more long-term look at quality of life. However, in this case, it might be that it could be difficult for people to remember accurate answers for a time longer than four weeks ago, I'm not really sure.