THAT'S LIFE - Mediterranean diet
- What questions would you ask of the researchers who conducted
this study?
- How many more heart attacks were there in the group eating
their usual diet? How many times more heart attacks were there
in this group? Does this seem significant?
- If you have studied hypothesis testing, assume half of the
people were in each group and test whether the proportions in
each group could be the same (that is come from the same population).
- What other factors might influence the results of the study
besides diet?
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