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Several studies showed that after eating a low-fat cereal for two meals a day, subjects had lost some weight. A cereal company financed this research. What is wrong with this study?

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It is questionable that the sponsor is a cereal company because this sponsor can be greatly affected by the conclusion

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What is wrong with this study is the because of the self interest study that has been conducted because this is a type of study of which the only participants involved are the ones who want to participate with the experiment, therefore, it wouldn’t be reliable as they don’t have a wide variety of participants in helping the study.

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