Saturday, July 24, 2010

Please help critique this article on bacteria found on the link below:?

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs...





Thanks for any help u can give

Please help critique this article on bacteria found on the link below:?
^ You can access to full article if you are lucky.





Anyway, I'm not a bactariologist, but I can comment on some generals.





The analysis and statistics is pretty poor. Surely they could have analysed the amount of bactaria on the bread via a slightly less subjective manner. They don't even say the people who rated the bread slices - to +++++ were blind to there treatment groups. But surely they could have done better than that as well. Also the statistics on the pH; they should have adjusted the alpha level for multiple comparisons. Finally they could have done non-parametric tests on the bactaria grade.
Reply:This isn't an article - it's an abstract. It's just a summary without knowing any of the details. If you need to critique a journal article for an assignment, you would need the entire paper (Intro, materials %26amp; methods, results, discussion, and conclusion).





ADDITION: I tried again, and still can't get the full article to open.


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