Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Study on Sitting

Study

1. Read the article.
2. Post one comment using some of the vocabulary we have learned, e.g. unit of observation, variable type...

20 comments:

  1. The unit of observation in this study was people over 25 and the variable of how long people sat and how it affected their life span was quantitative.

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  2. As Sheehan said, the unit of observation was people over 25 years of age. Also, Australians watch a lot of television.

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  3. Unit of observation was People over the age of 25 in this study. Life span of how long they watched tv was the quantitive variable.

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  4. The unit of observation was people over 25. The variable in this study was the amount of time people spent sitting down.

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  5. The unit of study was people over 25. The variable is the amount of time people sat down for.

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  6. The unit of observation was people over the age of 25. The variable was the amount of time the person sat down a day. Even people who exercise daily can still be put in a "high risk" category if the watch too much TV and sit for too long.

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  7. The unit of observation was people over the age of 25. The variable of how many hours an Australian watches tv for was quantitative but added up to 9.8 billion hours in 2008.

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  8. In this study, the unit of observation was people over the age of 25. The variable that was being studied was the amount of time people sat down for. The average adult spends 50% to 70% of their life sitting.

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  9. The unit of observation for this study was (Australian) people older than the age of 25, and the variable studied was the amount of time people spent sitting per day.

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  10. The unit if observation is people over the age of 25, the variable vas the amount of time people spent sitting down. Life span of for how long they watched tv was quantitive.

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  11. The unit of observation in this study is the people of Australia over the age of 25. By separating the variable of time spent sitting, the researchers isolated the specific effect that hours of sitting had on people’s life spans.

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  12. The type of data used in this study is mainly quantitative, since it is based on the number of people practicing a certain activity. One could also say the data is categorical, since the data is based on Australians over the age of 25.

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  14. In the study summarized in the article, "Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit," the unit of observation is people who live in Australia and are over the age of twenty five. If I were to analyze this data, I would conclude that it is quantitative because it is numerical data.

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  15. The article was interesting and made me a little nervous, I should get out more. The unti of observation however for the article was those who were those who participated in the study, the people who were observed. The data is quantitative in nature due to the collected data being numerical.

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  16. The unit of observation was based on Australians over the age of 25. the data was quantitative based off of the amount of time watching tv vs amount of life lost. This article was quite eye opening.

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  17. The unit of study was people over 25 and the variable is the amount of time that people sat down

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  18. The unit of observation was Australian people above age 25. The variable was the amount of time that people sat down each day. The study was linked to how that variable influenced people's life expectancy.

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  19. In this study, the unit of observation is Australian people, over the age of 25. the variable measured was time spent sitting, and the study attempted to link the data with life span of those participating.

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  20. The unit of observation was people over the age of 25. The Australians spent a long time sitting making there life span shorter.

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