In the government document that I found it did indicate how the data was collected. They did a survey that the NIDA funded. They surveyed adolescents in middle and high schools across the United States. In the scholarly journal that I found it didnt indicate how the data was collected or analyzed. I think this is because a government document is more important than a scholarly journal and maybe a government document is required to let these things be known.
Government document: Volkow , N. (2006). National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Scholarly journal: Steroids, Tommy John, and Cataracts. (2011). Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, 19(2), 141-143.
Hi Lindsay,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post on statistical information in the government document and scholarly journal article.
Did the scholarly journal article also study middle school and high school students? What did it study?
Also--are you sure that you have the right citation for the government document? Is that the correct title of the document? If it came from a website, you would have to show from where it was retrieved.
I look forward to your responses.
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
The scholarly journal didnt study middle school and high school students. This article studied major league baseball players. I thought I cited the government document correctly. I can do it again to see if I did it wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt may be difficult to compare a study on middle school/high school students to a study of major league baseball players...did the government and the other researchers collect data from these populations in the same way? Did they ask the same questions?
ReplyDeleteInteresting!
Professor Wexelbaum