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Critical Reading
This page covers the Critical Reading course day on the Nottingham scheme held in March 2009
These are the documents from the course
Back ground information
| Critical reading dictionary | Although not included in the days course, this is a dictionary of critical reading terms that you may find helpful as a reference tool. |
Lecture Notes
| Opening quiz on probability | This gives a layout to the course and gives examples of how "common sense" is proved wrong at times when faced with certain problems when working thru the maths provides the correct and surprising answer |
| Study design | Strategies in how to keep up to date and
the basic principles behind different study design Quiz on Study design Answers to Study design |
| Sensitivity, Specificity and RIsk | Understanding Sensitivity and
Specificity as well as the ability to calculate these figures. An
understanding of the various values of Risk and Odds ratios Quiz on Risk Answers to Risk |
| Statistical terms | An explanation as to the many statistical terms you may read about |
| Four papers | These are four papers to critique
demonstrating the different types of paper you might encounter Answers to the four questions papers |
| Additional questions on Risk | These are further questions on Risk Answers to the questions |