Biology
Submitted by JamieYoungster on October 7, 2011
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Biology
Individual Assignment 1
The hypothesis in this study is that breast-fed babies are more intelligent than formula-fed babies. The independent variable in this study is breast milk because that is the variable that the researchers are introducing. Therefore the dependent variable is intelligence, because that is what the researchers want to measure.
The authors of this study used a study (Mortenson, Michaelsen, Sanders, & Reinisch, 2002) that sampled over 3000 men and women born in Copenhagen Denmark between October 1959 and December 1961. The subjects of this study were given a test (WAIS) to measure their intelligence. This study was meant to test the...
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