Health Claim Assignment

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SCI 1015 – Introduction to life science – health claim

Health Claim Assignment #1

Critique your Health Claim and Think about Research

Part 1:

Now that we have all found health claims that we are going to focus on for the rest of the term, we need to critique the experiments done to see if we think that the health claim is credible.

You will write a short paragraph in which you point out parts of the experiment that you would change or where you think the scientists could have improved upon their experiment. You can also include areas of further research for the researchers as well.

Part 2:

Assignment 3 is going to require you to do some independent research. I would like you to list 3-4 keywords that you want to research about your health claim using search engines (both Google and database searches).

ANSWERS

Part 1:

It is safe to argue that the experiment was successful. However, there are some concerns, which arguably affected the accuracy; hence, the credibility—the confidentiality and reliability of the study. One of the critical issues is that the experiment was too general. For accurate data, the researchers should have narrowed down to a given group or region in Australia other than focusing on the whole nation. As such, the experiment was only a good overall research, and so the group, which the theory was being tested on was very large. Besides geographical capacity, the study should also have narrowed down to a particular type of food. It should have tested Australian consumer’s perception towards, for example prepared or take-away pizzas as opposed to all types of food. In this sense, for me, for a case in point, I would have tested Australian students’ consumer perception towards prepared or take-away pizzas.

Part 2:

1) Pizza

2) Consumer Preference

3) Positivity bias

4) FoPLs