Confounding

Many people debate on whether organic food is actually better for you. Advocates believe organic foods are safer and more nutritious. Although organic sales have been steadily increasing, “many experts say there’s not enough evidence to prove any real advantage to eating organic foods” (“Is Organic”). Much of the organic movement has been driven by social trends and misinformation about health benefits. In terms of synthetic pesticides, it is true that organic crops have about one-third the…

deficiency and it is important to examine whether replacement of vitamin D levels can relief that symptoms of patients with depression and improve outcome of treatment. The high prevalence of depression or other mental distress can be caused by confounding factors such as low income, limited access to care, insurance or language issues, substance use and alcohol abuse. 1(department of health, NY…

specify that some of the previous research does not control for certain confounding variables. In their study, the authors hope to reduce extraneous variability by “…controlling the number of recycling receptacles across conditions and by examining receptacle location without the use of posted signs” (712). The specific recyclable…

Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy is a novel told in third person point of view about a bratty, misunderstood orphan protagonist named Maggie who had been hopping from home to home, then goes through the conflict of living with her two overly prim and proper great-aunt antagonists Aunt Lillian and Aunt Harriet, setting being is a beautiful home in late 1800 England. Uncle Morris, a side character, is who took her to their residency and seemed to disappear right after that task. It made me…

The film Troy is based fundamentally off of The Iliad, yet is affected by The Odyssey. The clear impact of these two works can be seen in the last piece of the film: The Sack of Troy. This is the thing that makes Odysseus well known in The Odyssey, however notorious in The Aeneid. There are a few contrasts, in any case, with the film against the two books. These distinctions bargain principally with the destiny of specific characters inside the film. The distinctions negate what happens in The…

Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List and the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale. These are established methods of measurement that have previously been found to maintain internal validity and thus are acceptable measurements. To minimize and measure confounding variables, respondents were asked not to exercise on the day of the study so that fatigue could be eliminated and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale assessment was given. Still validity is a concern. Participants received…

The authors Dieter and Kumar article focuses on celebrity diplomacy and the downside to it. They acknowledge the importance of celebrity activism had become a phenomenon that has become serious to ignore. They address the role of celebrities on issues related to international affairs. Narrowing their focus to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the impact of policies in countries within this organization. They also focus on celebrity competence when addressing these…

The goal of lesson three was to identify the sampling methods in five psychology research publications and discuss any ethical considerations posed in these articles. This, appropriateness of the sampling methods used, and artifacts and confounding variables introduced because of the techniques are discussed. In addition, a review of whether the researchers accomplished their goals by utilizing these processes follows. McCann & Holmes’s used nonprobability convenience sampling for their study,…

Within that stigma and marginalization are four confounding factors: a concealable stigma, beliefs about control over the stigmatizing characteristic, oppression and discrimination receive considerable social sanction and public approval, and the stigmatized characteristic may not be known to the individual…

because of his condition. These three very different meters, governed by Vonnegut’s purpose of bringing a realistic image of the war to light, cumulatively bring about the aforementioned effect of an anacoluthon, creating a virtual experience of the confounding psychosocial effects war has on…