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Highlights: A lab introducing uncertainty. Do digital devices have experimental uncertainty? Does quantifying uncertainty matter in health science?

Abstract: Isn't it time to introduce experimental uncertainty using digital instruments, or should we continue to let students become professionals who think that random error was caused by "human error" in reading old analog lab equipment? Wouldn't you like to convince your life-science students that forming quantitative conclusions from experimental measurements is relevant to medical professions and to their personal lives? Perhaps you'd like to try to introduce the use of standard deviation and standard error using repeated measurements of blood glucose meters.

Resource Types: Lecture materials

Authors:

Blake Laing

Southern Adventist University

Reid Mumford

Johns Hopkins University

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Life Sciences Topics:

Human and Animal Physiology > Other Body Fluids

Medical Applications > Diagnostic (non-imaging) Techniques > Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics

Math Topics:

Statistics

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