Ch 7 #2, Ch 8 # 2 & Ch 10 # 1-2
Ch 7 #2 – Read two empirical articles. What could have gone wrong in these studies? Were any precautions taken against adverse consequences what were described in the research paper? – Lina Alfonso
- Tweeting rape culture: Examining portrayals of victim blaming in discussions of sexual assault cases on Twitter.
Megan Stubbs-Richardson,Nicole E Rader and Arthur G Cosby
What could have gone wrong: The number of followers used to measure the importance of a tweet could be obscured due to fake/troll accounts. These Twitter accounts would not be representative of active users but rather an illusion created to create importance to someone with many followers.
Precautions taken against adverse consequences described: Setting up the Social Media Tracking and Analysis System that has the algorithm to access user profiles including profile picture, username, taglines, etc.
2. Gender and age interact to predict the development of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following a motor vehicle accident. KOBAYASHI, I.; SLEDJESKI, E. M.; DELAHANTY, D. L.
What could have gone wrong: The impact of different traumas vary within people and could be an under or over valued characteristic in the assessment of trauma history. Trauma types were measured but do not take into consideration childhood history of participants. Each participant could experience the trauma differently such as thinking is was more traumatic than someone else.
Precautions taken against adverse consequences described: When finding participates, the researchers sought those who were not actively treated for psychiatric disorders to decrease the risk of PTSD influence on the results. These disorders could cause the data to be skewed.
Chapter 8 #2 – Find three research papers. Examine all the figures and graphs used. Are the graphs labeled properly? Would you change these—and, if so, in what ways?
Seyfried TN, Sanderson TM, El-Abbadi MM, McGowan R, Mukherjee P. Role of glucose and ketone bodies in the metabolic control of experimental brain cancer. Br J Cancer. 2003;89:1375–82.
This is an example of graphs used in this article. I think it is a good one because it helps to illustrate the effects of a Ketogenic Diet on body weight in comparison to the other diets that the participants followed. Along with it is the energy intake which is useful in comparing and contrasting whether it is really the type of foods that is helping versus just a lower energy intake that is helping to see results
Allen BG, Bhatia SK, Buatti JM, Brandt KE, Lindholm KE, Button AM, Szweda LI,
Smith BJ, Spitz DR, Fath MA. Ketogenic diets enhance oxidative stress and radio-chemo-therapy responses in lung cancer xenografts. Clin Cancer Res Off J Am Assoc Cancer Res. 2013;19:3905–13.
Overall, this article also has some great figures and graphs to draw from. This one shows a side by side comparison of the blot samples of the cancer cells based on diet. This is extremely useful in giving a visual representation to academics reading the article. However, they are still wary about their results so they include an asterisk.
Paoli A, Rubini A, Volek JS, Grimaldi KA. Beyond weight loss: a review of thetherapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2013;67:789–96.
This is article also makes great use of figures, and this is the one I chose to talk about. I think in review article formats this is a great way of helping readers visualize the overall impications of the subject they are discussing. So, this summarizes the health implications of a Ketogenic Diet according to science that is available at the time.
Ch 10 #2: Article: “At Issued: Are American elections fair? Stuart A. Mallen. Detroit:Greenhaven Press, 2006
The premise that this article is going for is whether or not the voting rights of former felons should be fully restored or not. Although Stuart A. Mallen structures his journal entry demonstrating both sides of this question, it is clear his belief is that felons should never have the right to vote due to their actions.I disagree with his point in the journal article about how politics comes into play about this question. He claims that once someone disregards the law, he/she never deserves to have the right to vote for the rest of their life. He also believes that other deprived groups deserves the right to vote above former felons. However, politically speaking if we revoke all of former felons right to vote than we would no longer as a country have fair representation of voters, which we pride ourselves on in our beloved country. I do believe that the author makes plenty of valid points for his stance on the matter but, he doesn’t go into details about how we treat the former felons based upon the crimes committed. I think many would agree in the sense that not all crimes are created equal, so how can we treat every former felon the same. (Tania Duran)
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