Veggies Suffer more Health Problems say Graz Researchers. http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2014-03-03/15137/Veggies_suffer_more_health_problems_say_Graz_researchers

This article summarizes a study performed by Graz Researchers on 15,000 subjects.  The researchers divided the subjects into groups based on diet, then by “their sex and their social and economic background, which included the level of education, the income and their career.”  The researchers compared non-meat-eaters to meat-eaters with similar life backgrounds.  From the studies, the researchers believe non-meat-eaters have a higher chance of suffering “allergies, cancer and mental problems including depression and phobias.”

The articles research topic is health from different diets.  The researchers are interested in finding what diets provide the best health (For the record: the Mediterranean diet with lots of fruits, vegetables and moderate consumption of meat was the healthiest diet).   The research question is: are non-meat-eaters healthier by not eating meat?

The data type needed to answer the research question would be acts, events and/or behaviors of subjects that eat meat and those that don’t eat meat.  The researchers need this data to evaluate diet and health of the subjects.  The data retrieving method would be to use private or public records and surveys.

Another data type needed will be life background information from the subjects.  This information is needed to find subjects’ which subjects have similar lives.  This information can be retrieved using public or private record, survey, or interview.

The data is then organized to categories to be analyzed.  The subjects that eat meat are compared to the subjects that don’t eat meat, by the controlled variable of their life backgrounds.  An example of a controlled variable can be income.  I believe this research is not 100% probable, because I believe there are more variables that could affect the health of these subjects.  The subjects were separated into their categories based on physical life backgrounds; however there is no determination of how the subjects were mentally healthy prior to the study.  I believe mental health has a large effect on physical health.  Without measuring and considering the mental health of subjects, this study cannot be 100% probable.