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- From: albert@hpl.hp.com (Joseph Albert)
- Subject: Re: FOR LOS ANGELES AREA WOMEN ONLY
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:06:34 GMT
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- Many people seem threatened by the study that requested subjects, so much
- as to post responses claiming the sample would be biased, or that the
- study was intended to garner propaganda, or other claims.
-
- All of you seem so eager to comment about something you don't know anything
- about.
-
- if someone was doing a study on the efficacy of a drug to help someone
- recover from a heart attack, they would try specifically to recruit
- people who have had a heart attack. yes this would bias the sample in
- the sense that it would be totally useless in assessing the prevalence
- of heart disease. but, that isn't what the investigator was trying to
- do. it is difficult to study the efficacy of a heart drug on people that
- aren't heart patients, so the investigator would not wnat to waste their
- time, subject's time, and federal research dollars recruiting people
- in general, and then seeing which have suffered heart failures to be
- eligible for the study. instead, they would put out a request for
- people who have suffered a heart problem, and then verify that they
- fit the category pertinent to the study.
-
- if indeed someone had posted a request for such a study of a heart drug,
- people never would have responded as they have to the requests for
- subjects that actually was posted. they wouldn't have because anyone
- with half a brain would see what utter fools they were making of themselves.
-
- Joseph Albert
- albert@hplabs.hp.com
-