KINE 2049 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Relative Risk Reduction, Gatorade, Psych
11 Dec 2017
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Format of a journal article continued: it"s like doing a study about exercise to prove that working out makes your marks better. This then makes everyone work out in hopes of doing better but in reality it won"t help them that result was a uke. Sometimes people don"t" want to publish results, because they are bad results: if a drug company nds out a drug has really bad side e ects, then it won"t publish that information because it doesn"t want anyone knowing that. To decide if something is a good research article check the: source of the research and the funding. If the researcher is funded by gatorade and they are doing research for gatorade, obviously they will say its good: researchers who have contacted the subjects: you might get anxious or something. Could their be some biases happening? what was going on: how are the individuals or objects studied, and how they are selected:
