Empirical Questions Examples assignment

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For this assignment, you will submit three empirical questions, along with a summary of one empirical article. You may use any of the empirical questions that you generated during the in-class activity along with any of the articles that you found during in-class activities.

For each empirical question, you must:

  • List the empirical question
  • List the operational definitions for all variables in your empirical question
  • List an APA-style reference to an article that is related to the empirical question

For one of your empirical questions, you must:

  • Write a summary of the article, written in scientific style
    • Summary must be 1 page
    • This summary must be in your own words (no direct quotes)
    • Turnitin score must be less than 10%
    • Summary must summarize the entire article, not just the abstract

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Running Head: EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS

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Empirical Questions
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Instructor
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EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS

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Empirical Questions

i.

What percentage of young children suffers from diabetes in the United States?
Age is an important variable in this case. The age under consideration is in the range of 2

to 16 years. Another important variable is diabetes diagnosis. Diagnostic records from public
health records will be used as a measure of diabetes prevalence among children.
Related article: Maahs, D., & Zeitler, P. (2004). Type 2 diabetes in children: a growing
epidemic. Current Opinion In Endocrinology & Diabetes, 11(2), 60-64.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.med.0000129635.66026.18
ii.

How does the prevalence of diabetes vary with ethnicity/race in the United
States?
Ethnic orientation is an important variable in this case. Four major ethnic/racial groups

will be considered in this case, namely African Americans, Caucasian Americans, Asian
Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Another important variable is diabetes diagnosis.
Diagnostic records from public health records will be used as a measure of diabetes prevalence
among the members of the different ethnic/racial groups.
Related article: Spanakis, E., & Gol...


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