Historical Trivia
This study utilizes control and experimental groups to test a hypothesis.
What is a randomized control trial
This category of bias is associated with issues concerning generalizability of a sample population to a larger population.
What is sampling bias
What is a Nosocomial Disease?
What is a disease acquired inside of a hospital setting
What is the causative agent of Smallpox
The Variola Major virus.
Who first proposed Germ Theory in the late 1850s?
What is a Prospective Cohort Study
An experimenter would utilize a double blind to avoid what type(s) of bias(es)
What are Experimenter and Subject bias
HIV is an example of a ____ disease
Chronic
Name at least 2 exceptions to Koch's Postulates.
What are viruses, asymptomatic carriers, latent disease, ect.
What is Variolation
Vaccine Efficacy will usually be ____ than Vaccine Effectiveness.
What is higher
An ecological study is especially susceptible to this type of bias, explain.
What is the Ecological Bias/Fallacy.
Assuming group level conclusions apply to individuals.
What is endemic
Which fungus was responsible for producing the first antibiotic that Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928.
What is Penicillium Mold
Joseph Lister famously used this substance as an antiseptic to perform the first sterile surgery.
What is Carbolic Acid
Why can you not calculate a Risk Ratio for a Case Control Study?
What is selecting based on disease status means that you are missing the total population at risk which is necessary for calculating Risk Ratio.
At least 2 examples of a Cognitive Bias.
Idk
What are some factors that can contribute to Herd Immunity
What are natural immunization from prior exposure, genetic resistance, vaccination
Justinian's Plague ravaged which ancient civilization.
Who are the Byzantines/Eastern Romans
Who created the first vaccination against Polio? What type of vaccination was it?
What is Jonas Salk's Injected Polio Vaccine
Name at least 3 statistical tests often utilized in Randomized Control Trials to determine statistical significance.
What are Chi Square, T-Test, and ANOVA.
What is Neyman Bias?
Viruses and Prions are examples of what type of causative agent?
What is Non-living or Acellular
MIT stands for what?
Hint: Think of the most auraful woman in Science Olympiad
May (Thu Khaing) Institute of Technology