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1 particularly large quantities of chips. The older boys
2 had the highest median consumption of chips." It goes on
3 with fairly relevant stuff, but I think it is probably
4 best now to skip to 9.5.6., which is looking at older boys
5 within the age range they examined; that is to say, boys
6 aged 14 and 15 -- again skip the first sentence -- the
7 second sentence, or the third sentence I would like to
8 refer to, particularly, the third and fourth:
9
10 "There were 68 older boys who ate out of school at cafes,
11 take-away and fast food outlets. These boys were eating a
12 self-selected meal at week-day lunch times, and they ate
13 the most eggs, other meat products, chocolate and colas."
14 Also for the girls of that age group, paragraph 9 ----
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How many are there in the group? It says 68
17 older boys?
18 A. Yes, the total sample was a good deal more.
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20 Q. Does table 50 help you?
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22 MR. MORRIS: I would have thought section 2 "Survey
23 Methodology", page 3 onwards, must have all the details.
24 The total on page 4 is 2,697.
25 A. Yes. Of that group of boys it was, therefore, 513, of
26 which 68 eat in cafes at higher rates, that particular
27 consumption.
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29 Q. Could you say something about the methodology of these
30 surveys? Was it very detailed?
31 A. I believe it to be so, yes. These sorts of reports
32 take an awful lot of money and government funding.
33 I believe they are not done casually. They spend an awful
34 lot of trouble on it. Indeed, samples of over 1000 of any
35 particular group, particularly children, are not easy to
36 run and must have taken a lot of effort.
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38 Can I also ask you to pay attention to the penultimate
39 paragraph of that chapter, 9.6.6, which looks at older
40 girls, equivalent to the older boys, again half way
41 through the paragraph: "There were 54 girls", and that
42 would be from ----
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44 MR. RAMPTON: 461.
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46 THE WITNESS: -- "There were 54 girls who ate out of school at
47 cafes, take-away and fast food outlets. Like the older
48 boys in this category they were eating a self-selected
49 meal at week-day lunch times. They ate the most eggs,
50 bacon, poultry, sausages, burgers, chocolate, other
51 vegetables, colas and fizzy drinks."
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is all related to lunches during the
54 school week in both those paragraphs?
55 A. When it says "they ate the most", I think they are
56 referring to this group compared with all other girls
57 sampled of that age group; so this 54 ate more of those
58 foods than the other of the 561.
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60 MR. MORRIS: Because they did it at lunch time during school
