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An epidemiologist distributes the following survey to both the ill and not ill attendees of a party:

1) Symptoms

2) Food eaten at party

Describe some of the possible things that could go wrong/are wrong with the survey.
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Biases such as recall bias and response bias could result in skewed data.
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Yep, your turn!
Also lack of things like name, contact info, age, and sex
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How many foodborne pathogens are known by the CDC?
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wzhang5460 wrote:How many foodborne pathogens are known by the CDC?
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Yep!
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Name a bacterial agent which has an incubation period of 5 hours to 5 days that has historical significance in the field of epidemiology.
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IcsTam wrote:Name a bacterial agent which has an incubation period of 5 hours to 5 days that has historical significance in the field of epidemiology.
Vibrio cholerae
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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:
IcsTam wrote:Name a bacterial agent which has an incubation period of 5 hours to 5 days that has historical significance in the field of epidemiology.
Vibrio cholerae
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