Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Scientific Analysis Assignment:
#1 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170823102555.htm
1)      This article is about researchers studying and came to the conclusion that smokers in stop-smoking programs claim that they have quit smoking, when a lot of them really haven’t.
2)      4,206 subjects were used in this experiment
3)      It doesn’t say if there was a control group or not.
4)      They used participants from “five large smoking cessation clinical trials in the US that enrolled smokers at hospitalization.”
5)      They had the participants take a survey and gave them a usable saliva sample to use to prove that they haven’t smoked within the last seven days.
6)      Most of the ones who failed the usable saliva sample test didn’t respond to any messages from the researchers after knowing they failed the test.
7)      Yes, they did.
#2 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170802092002.htm
1)      Psychologists did research and came to the conclusion that most men that are gamblers probably suffered some sort of abuse or witnessed abuse as a child.
2)      More than 3,000 men
3)      It doesn’t say if there was a control group or not
4)      They weren’t specifically chosen. It say the men that took the survey were on a “variety of life factors.”
5)      The experimenters asked questions to see if the men that were tested were abused or seen any abuse happen as a child.
6)      The men who gambled acted more violently.
7)       Yes, they did.
#3 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170810145713.htm
1)        Researchers found out that using a mouse model for human bullying effects everyday things like sleeping patterns.
2)      It doesn’t say how many mice were used in this experiment.   
3)      It doesn’t say if there is a control group or not.
4)      They just used mice that were young and small and mice that were old and big.   
5)      They took the little mouse and put it in the big mouse’s home cage. When the big, old mouse saw the little mouse in its territory, it chased the little mouse. Eventually, the big mouse traps the little mouse between it and the wall, acting as a bully. Then the mice are separated and this is repeated for 10 days straight, except using a different mouse every time.  
6)      They experienced big changes in sleep patterns, and some had “flattening body temperatures.”
7)      Yes, they did.
#4 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170719084710.htm
1)      Researches did research on why some women are able to go through menopause without being emotional and some are emotional.    
2)      More than 1,300 women
3)      It doesn’t say if there was a control group or not.
4)      They chose regularly menstruating premenopausal women from ages 42 to 52.
5)      They mainly focused on finding out the effect of estradiol.
6)      They react more “depressed” during and after the transition of menopause.
 7)      Yes, they did.

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