KIN330 Lecture 20: Lecture 20 -Descriptive Research 2.docx
11 Mar 2014
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Why: yes, the note helped summarize the commonalities and synthesize the findings and gives rise to some evidence and facts of the disease, helps contextualize how extraordinary the cases were, what kind of research designs does the editor mention, case control study was identified (hetero vs homo) : cross sectional study, no experimental studies or quasi experimental studies. Another example: obesity (bmi>30: current adult obesity prevalence (us): 34, current child obesity prevalence (us): 17, childhood obesity trends: 43% drop in children yr 2 5, but is it true, we see that in 2 to 5 graph, there is lots of variability that was not accounted for, but in other graphs, there are also no systematic trend, the 43% drop is not a lie, but the war against obesity remains to be seen when we actually see a steady drop in obesity rates in children.
