2.63 An article titled I Said, Not While You Study: Science Suggests Kids Cant Study and Groove...
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2.63 An article titled “I Said, Not While You Study: Science Suggests Kids Can’t Study and Groove at the Same Time” appeared in the Washington Post (September 5, 2006). This provides an example of a reporter summarizing the result of a scientific study in a way that is designed to make it accessible to the newspaper’s readers. You can find the newspaper article online by searching on the title or by going to http://www
.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006
/09/03/AR2006090300592.html. The study referenced in the newspaper article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and can be found at http://www.pnas.org/content/103
/31/11778.full.
Read the newspaper article and then take a look at the published paper. Comment on whether you think that the author was successful in communicating the findings of the study to the intended audience.
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Introduction To Statistics And Data Analysis
ISBN: 9781305445963
5th Edition
Authors: Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen, Jay L Devore