Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Design Of Experiments

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2032A/B
• Professor: Lindsay Nagamatsu

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Steps for critically reading a research paper: read entire paper once. Anything you don"t understand: look up anything you didn"t understand, read intro. Do they have a strong rationale for conducting the study? (ex. based on previous work: read methods. What alternative methods could they have used: read results. Appropriate controls? confounds? other variables? other explanations: read discussion. What is the interpretation of the results? (ex. why did they find what they did?) What are the overall conclusions (1 sentence you could tell your grandma: think about paper overall. How can this info be used? applications, etc. Who would use this info? (researchers, students, healthcare practitioners)