, it could have definitely been improved upon since the age range they selected did not

include a wide variety. Moreover, the age range that was used by the study included children
who were about to hit puberty. During that age, most children are undergoing puberty which
could affect the BMI score, making the data calculated less accurate

, it is unfair to use children from just the United States to represent a global result due to
differences in diet and upbringing

p-value, which is the probability of finding the observed or more extreme results when the
null hypothesis is true, is invalid. The fact that the study used the p values to suggest that
there is an association between the exergaming and weight loss renders the study useless

Maybe talk about the games ? as they did mention in the source what kids like to play

Analyse: • What statistical tools did the study use to analyse the data and obtain the results? For
example, did they use risk/odds ratio, find correlation coefficients between variables, or use
regression?

• What were the main conclusions of the study?

• If p values were used, what were the relevant null hypotheses for the main results? Due to the
randomisation not being truly random this causes the P-value to be invalid to the study but if the p-
values where to be used. There seems to be quite a good outcome as seen from table 2 there are
quite a few of the p-value being under the 0.05 significant level which will reject the alternate
hypotheses and prove that the null hypotheses is true. The null hypotheses are about the decrease
in anthropometry and CV risk factors.

• Was any control/adjustment for confounding done in their analyses (if they identified potential
confounders/ covariates)? Did they use slicing/regression? Did Simpson’s paradox occur? i guess
the control could be that the kids where told on Simpson paradox did not occur as they only
measure obese type and that but it could apply if taken in account that during this period of the
experiment the control group decide to be more healthy meaning taking the initial themselves and
did not report that this mean that the data might show that no exergaming actually does more
benefit or (the MVPA as some don’t follow the guideline but could achieve better or worst result).

• If the statistical tools used in the study are not familiar to you, you can ignore most of them. You
are not expected to know. Just focus on the main tool used. You can google or ask me during the
proposal presentation tutorial, or discuss with me on discord. I will also provide more information
on discord as time goes on

The 6 months to short – the guild line was 60 min per day, 3days per week for 24 weeks (6 months)
its only 72 hr of exercise which is only 3 full days.