You are watching the nightly news and see a segment on a study evaluating deaths in people taking a new cholesterol-lowering dru
g. The study reports that 60% of all people taking this drug experience serious side effects, such as liver damage, stroke, or death. What question is NOT important to ask about this study to determine its impact?
Did the affected people recover from the liver damage and/or strokes they experienced?
Explanation:
Questions that are relevant to determine the impact of the study are the ones that focus on the number of people involved, their age, gender, cultural origin, and their health conditions before they started taking the new cholesterol-lowering drug. On the other hand, asking people about their recovery has no major significance for this purpose.
Shelby remembers from her anthropology class that racial categories are determined by mental maps of reality.
Mental maps of reality is a persons point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. We all have mental maps we carry around in our heads to make sense of the geographical world around us.
I'm pretty sure the answer is... It is the role of the courts to interpret and apply the law, and the Constitution is the highest law. This all ties back to judicial review where the courts can label something unconstitutional also ties back to checks and balances where each branch has a specific power and job.
