My new semester for school just started last Monday and one of my classes, Family Relations, requires us to keep a blog. We've only had a couple class periods so far, but I believe that I will enjoy the class and learn a lot. We already talked about some of the challenges in social science research. Some difficulties come from researcher bias (a researcher can unintentionally or intentionally let bias slip into their research), maturation (we think differently as we grow), publishing (it can take 2 or more years to get research published), terminology (we might have different ideas of what a term means), sampling (sampling size might not be big enough, or might not be representative, etc.), and time (it can be hard to watch a study for a long period of time).