Dr. Money's research with David Reimer can be classified as exploratory-motivated research. At the time, sex change was not well known or accepted in the culture of Canadian society. You don't hear very often about a male or female having a sex change and undergoing a sex change operation. After hearing from the twin's parents, Dr. Money found a great case to explore his theory of sex change. The exploratory method used occurs when a researcher examines a new study, which in this case would be sex change. Exploratory theories are a source of grounded theory when a researcher is trying to enter a new field. As explained in our textbooks, exploratory studies tend to have three purposes. They must satisfy At first Dr. Money explained to the parents to raise David as a girl. It seemed to be working well until David began to notice changes in his body into a more masculine shape. Dr. Money took a more physical approach and used the genital differences between boys and girls to explain the difference. The twins were forced to strip naked and Dr. Money asked David what the difference was between his brother's genitals and his own. Dr. Money believed that David would see himself as a girl when he saw that he did not have a penis and that he would be closer to being a girl since he only had skin in his groin area. Nomothetic causation assumes that a casual relationship occurs. There are three fundamental principles for nomothetic causality to occur in social research. The first principle is that the variables must be correlated, the cause precedes the effect and the variables must be non-spurious. A correlation occurs when one variable changes and affects the other variable. In Dr. Money's research, the two variables would be the sex of the child and how this changes in relation to how the child is raised. His research had no correlation as he assumed that if a child was raised from birth to be raised as a girl, then he would grow up as a girl. However with Bruce this did not happen as he knew he was a due to changes in his male body around the age of 12. Dr. Money's research did not appear to be an example of nomothetic causation as it failed to connect to the