Several studies showed that after eating a low-fat cereal for two meals a day, subjects had lost some weight. A cereal company f
inanced this research. What is wrong with this study? Deliberate disortion
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Self-intrest study
Voluntary response sample
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Nonresponsive
Cereal companies are blamed for putting too much sugar into their products, which causes obesity. This is bad for them, as it would stop people from bying their products. So they would have an interest in study showing that this is not the case: the study would be a self-interest study (the correct answer) and therefore not be reliable
