SOCI 3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Environmental Hazard, Dow Chemical Company, Fetus
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Less exposed in comparison a but hard to do comparison, rather than just the average. Instead they report vague symptoms, sore throat, itchy eyes, rash, achy, cough, lines up with other disease and flu symptoms. Vague symptoms, people can be embarrassed to say something to doctor. One problem of cluster symptoms is they might not add up to any diagnosis. No known link between the set of symptoms. Four: interpretation of data hotly debated. (environmental causes shielded from attack) Enough dramatic data is found and ppl go to press. Controlling for how long the person has been in the community. Two sides are often time labeled popular epidemiologists and traditional epidemiologists. If were right or wrong, if you have an hiv test positive on a test is bad. Traditional epidemiologists- traditional epidemiologists want to be level headed, not alarmist. Don"t want to say problem when there is not, don"t want to make false positive error.
