Research paper question?

The prof wants us to find 2 articles about "statistics" online.


here is his requirements:


Choose a topic you would like to investigate in depth this quarter, and find an article on it in the


popular press





Odds are good that the topic you’ve chosen will also have received attention in academic or


professional journals. Next, find an article of original research addressing the topic. An article of original research will always include a description of the methods the researchers employed in doing the research. Be careful with journals like Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc. These often blend the characteristics of several different levels of expertise, levels you will be interested in separating. Your article of original research and your popular source should feel entirely different. One should be an easy introduction, and the other should feel challenging.

Research paper question?
Well, I can't point you to actual news stories because I read the paper reviews in blogs, but a few interesting recent papers that were mainly based on statistics were the discredited study on prayer that came out of Columbia University, where I think they claimed that prayer helped heart surgery patients recover faster by mangling the statistics, and there's the meta-analysis (another cool tool in statistics) from the Lancet last year (I think it was last year) that showed that homeopathy was no more than the placebo affect.

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