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Goals: To practice reading and interpreting scientific studies.
- Find a reported study (either an experiment or an observational study) on the Internet or in a magazine, journal, book, or newspaper in an area of interest to you. Print out or copy the abstract or summary.
- Write a report on your chosen abstract. Be sure to include the authors of the study; the title of the study; the journal, book, or magazine in which it was published; and the date of the publication. In your report, answer these questions:
- What is the research question that these investigators are trying to answer?
- What is their answer to the research question?
- What were the methods used to collect the data?
- Is the conclusion appropriate for the methods? (For example, is the conclusion a cause-and-effect claim? Were the data collected in such a way as to support this claim?)
- To what population do the conclusions apply?
- Is any indication given that these results are consistent with what other researchers have suggested?
Please be sure to include the abstract or summary that you used.
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Child Poverty in New Zealand: Why it matters and how it can be reduced. By Boston, Jonathan
Abstract
A combination of policy changes and wider socio-economic trends led to a dramatic increase in
child poverty in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Higher rates of child
poverty have now become embedded in the system and show little sign of resolving themselves.
For a country which once took pride in being comparatively egalitarian and, more particularly, a
great place to bring up children, the tolerance of much greater child poverty is surprising. It is
also concerning. Child poverty imposes many costs. This is especially the case, according to the
available evidence, when poverty occurs during early childhood and when it is severe and/or
persistent. These costs afflict not only the children directly exposed to poverty (e.g. in the form
of lower educational achievement, reduced lifetime earnings, and poore...
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