Normal Weight Babies example essay topic

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The journal that I choose to do is about children who fail to thrive. These children do not eat like normally children their age. The researchers in the article want to see if the children who thrive more to eat if given more energy intake. So the test will consist of twenty seven one year olds who fail to thrive and twenty seven one year old who are normal weight.

They will then give the children two test meals on two separate days at their own home. They meals will either consist of a high energy drink or a low energy drink. They did the experiment as a double blind experiment, which meant neither the parent or the experimenter knew which drink the baby was going to be drinking. The result of the experiment was that normal weight babies responded to the high energy load as a subsequent meal where as the abnormal weight babies didn't. In my opinion I don't think this was a good experiment. There were too many things that went wrong.

There were babies that dropped out of the experiment which could have altered the result some. I do think it was a good idea however to have the experiment be a double blind experiment because I think that if someone giving the babies the drinks knows it could have altered the results. I know with other experiments that I have done in my other psychology classes that people act differently when they know what they are giving the patient (baby). I also think that there are other things that need to be taken into consideration in why these babies do not thrive to eat. They may have stomach problems or have other problem that the doctors are unaware of. I also think this a bad way to test it because the babies who do not thrive on eating will not drink as much as the normal weight babies which can also alter the results.