Sentences with phrase «people design a study»

Most people design a study, collect data and then think about analysis.

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To find out the pair designed a series of studies that both asked research participants to identify what sort of experiences resulted in what levels of happiness and also looked at Facebook posts, examining what activities people post at what age and how they report those activities affecting their mood.
While this is but one study of many, the isolation effect should be kept in mind when testing color palettes to create contrast in your web design and guide people to important action areas.
The bottom line finding from the Facebook study: «People leave jobs, and it's up to managers to design jobs that are too good to leave.»
Web designing done after a market study will ensure that you will build a website that people (i.e., your customers or your market) will visit.
The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»
From a McKinsey & Company study designed mostly to demonstrate that the U.S. school system is letting the American people, and the American economy, down, let us snatch a few
The Center for University Ministry (interdenominational) is endeavoring to reach out to gay persons through its counseling staff, through worship and Bible studies, and through the publication of a special bibliography on homosexuality and religion designed particularly to aid clergy and other counselors.
The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).
Since we did not conduct a longitudinal design (a study conducted over time tracking the same people) we are unable to validate this assumption.
So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).
He believes it is dishonest to invite people to «seminars» which are designed not for study but for employment of peer - group pressure and mass psychology techniques to raise money.
I tend to side with the anti-agave position, but I would like to see more studies on fructose consumption in humans — well designed tightly controlled metabolic ward studies to make sure that people truly are being compliant with the foods that are being tested..
So many people do not look closer at the how studies are run to see if they are well designed!
What I find even more troubling is people with no scientific credentials whatsoever citing to a few studies that may or may not be well - designed, may or may not have been replicated, may or may not represent the scientific consensus.
Dr. Nkpah said: «After a study of the approach, loud pronouncements and long delays adopted by the government on the globally celebrated implementation, the Ogoni people are not persuaded about the sincerity of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government whose earlier promises were designed to score cheap political points.»
This will impact some 28,000 people, and is designed to include students who use work - study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.
In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.
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BN: At least five psychology journals are inviting people to submit plans for replicating specific studies, which will then get peer - reviewed on the basis of their designs [rather than their results].
Precisely what is sapping young people of their natural impulse to feel for others remains mysterious, however, because scientists can not design a study to evaluate changes that occurred in the past.
Studies that compare flu alterations in multiple people won't immediately tell researchers how to design vaccines, she says, but could point to parts of the virus for further investigation.
According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.
«We think we can use our molecular, rational design approaches to make a better flu vaccine for people who really need it,» says study leader Andrew Pekosz, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
«Now the challenge is to design experimental studies using biomarkers in cognitively normal people to determine who can really benefit from the drugs.»
Set up to mimic the design of a drug trial, the study randomly assigned aid to a subset of people within a development project called the «Graduation program.»
Previously researchers have studied brain activity in people watching a video designed to engender a feeling of joint attention in the viewer.
«Although our study was not designed to figure out why obese people have lower vitamin D levels, our results ultimately suggest that low vitamin D levels do not cause or worsen OSA,» said Kunisaki.
«It was clear from our findings that many people with IBS should have their vitamin D levels tested, and the data suggests that they may benefit from supplementation with vitamin D. «As a result of this exploratory study, we're now able to design and justify a larger and more definitive clinical trial.»
«Because most of these products have been developed for a pretty well - resourced group of people in pharma and the chemical industry, the prices tend to be pretty big,» says Alan Wolf, who helped coordinate a recent pilot study designed to find an ELN suitable for university - wide adoption at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison.
A new study shows that workplace wellness programs can be effective in helping people lose weight by providing healthier food choices and increasing opportunities for physical activity, particularly if these efforts are designed with the input and active participation of employees.
The study team scored diets based, among other things, on how well people followed recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA) that are designed to help prevent chronic health problems like cardiovascular disease.
As part of the study design, surveyors recruited participants traditionally underrepresented in other surveys about mobile phone use, including minorities, and people with low incomes.
Shaffer, who also is an assistant professor of psychological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, believes that to further improve medical software and create the best end product, information technology (IT) experts who design the software should collaborate with experts who study how people interact with technology and medical professionals who would use the software.
Milgram's original study design was simple: He gave 60 people in Wichita, Kansas, envelopes and the name of a target person — a stranger — along with a few details of that person's life.
A Georgetown University professor published in the online journal PLOS ONE the first study explaining why drugs designed to fight off malaria stop working in some people with the disease.
Assistant robots are designed to help people with everyday tasks, such as dispense dispensing medications, whereas companion robots are designed to support people emotionally, serving as friends or pets, according to the researchers, who report their findings in the current issue of the International Journal of Human - Computer Studies.
«We used a highly controlled experimental design, to ensure that any benefits of mindfulness training were not likely explained by people believing it was a better treatment,» said co-author Dr Tom Freeman (Senior fellow of the Society for the Study of Addiction), who was part of the research team while based at UCL.
«We now need longitudinal studies to confirm these findings, because if true, it may be possible to design interventions to help prevent mental health problems in some people with epilepsy.»
The study could help identify people who would most benefit from new drugs designed to save brain cells, but more research is necessary to determine if the genetic mutations are implicated in disease.
More than 10,000 people participate in NHANES, a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.
Miller and colleagues were intrigued by the possibility of designing studies to lower tau in people, but first they needed to see how the oligonucleotide worked in an animal more similar to people than a mouse.
In the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Diehl and her colleagues outline a series of nine experiments involving over 2,000 participants in the field and the lab designed to examine the effect of taking photographs of an experience on people's enjoyment of an activity.
«This work sets the stage for additional animal studies to see if tamoxifen can be used as a drug in people and will allow us to design new drugs related to tamoxifen that are better antifungals,» says Damian Krysan of the University of Rochester, an author on the study.
The key to the study was that the eight profiles were designed to make the people profiled appear attractive and successful — or unattractive or unsuccessful.
«There is now a large group of under - represented people expressing themselves through games,» says Mike Treanor, who studies video game design at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
The association was also confirmed in a study design comparing time periods within the same person, thus eliminating selective factors.
The study was designed as a preliminary assessment of the program's effectiveness in reducing overdose deaths among recently incarcerated people, meaning those who had been incarcerated within a year of their deaths.
In a similarly designed pilot study of the device conducted at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, researchers found striking improvements in motor function among people receiving the targeted stimulation compared with those in the simulation group.
(in study design) To assign people in one group or another based on no particular reason; indeed, researchers often use a computer to make the decision without knowing anything about the individual.
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