[HTHSCI 3BB3] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 118 pages long Study Guide!

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 3BB3
• Professor: Teresa Mccurdy

Document Summary

The scientific method starts with asking a question that is usually based on some observation. Then you do some background research and construct a hypothesis. We want to then test the hypothesis by doing some sort of an experiment. After this, the data needs to be analyzed and a conclusion is drawn. Lastly, the results are reported and you find out if the hypothesis was correct or not. We have the weight of the evidence saying this is the way it works. It gets a bit tricky with nutrition for suitable study duration because it takes many years to see the effects of things like eating pattern so we see a lot of observational studies for this. Control group: variable being tested is absent. We would like to blind the participants and researchers if possible and if we can blind the people that are analyzing the results then that is even better.