Healthcare in the United States
Multiple studies conducted in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom show that the
probability of dying in the hospital is higher if you are admitted on the weekend. Why might this be? What
factors might contribute to this probability? What could hospitals do to reduce/eliminate this phenomenon?
Using survey data to calculate statistics can be extremely valuable, but you must also make sure that the
sample and questions are unbiased. Design a pair of questions that are related to the same healthcare issue:
one that is unbiased and another that would result in a bias in one direction or the other