Interpreting a survey
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What relationship did the survey find?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Cyclists reported greater commute satisfaction
The reported finding concerns cyclists' satisfaction with commuting.
Why does the speaker reject a simple causal conclusion?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Cyclists may differ from other commuters in important ways
Distance, route safety and enjoyment of exercise may affect the comparison.
What limited detailed subgroup comparisons?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: The small sample
The sample was too small to compare every subgroup reliably.
What value do the results still have?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: They identify questions for further research
The findings suggest further questions and describe existing cyclists' experience.
What would be needed before a wider recommendation?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Broader evidence and knowledge of barriers
The speaker asks for a broader sample and an account of barriers.
What relationship did the survey find?
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: Cyclists reported greater commute satisfaction
The reported finding concerns cyclists' satisfaction with commuting.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: Cyclists may differ from other commuters in important ways
Distance, route safety and enjoyment of exercise may affect the comparison.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: The small sample
The sample was too small to compare every subgroup reliably.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: They identify questions for further research
The findings suggest further questions and describe existing cyclists' experience.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: Broader evidence and knowledge of barriers
The speaker asks for a broader sample and an account of barriers.
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