Assignment Task:
Topic: The Trouble with Antibiotics
YouTube Video: The Trouble with Antibiotics (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Some examples of ideas to write about:
The FDA's Commissioner (40 years ago) Donald Kennedy, and colleagues found that antibiotic fed animals gained weight faster than usual. This bought to light that antibiotic resistance would come from animal use or human use. Discuss which would be signal or noise, from the t test. .
How would Cohen's d for independent groups have made the statistical data precise enough to decide not to use antibiotics in agriculture?
When Representative Whitten threaten to cut FDA's budgetary resources how could a significance test have helped change the decision due to Whitten's behavior.
Now, forty years later, based on correlated observations what could be the effect size r from the independent t
NOTE: Tetracycline resistance vs. cephalosporin resistance impact on human behavior (from fecal samples)