Study, study

We've embarked on the one-test-per-week gig that will last the rest of the semester.
On the upside, there'll be no final written exam!
This week: Measurement Exam
This is an open-book exam for our Statistics Unit of the semester. Open-book because our professor acknowledges the impracticality of making us memorize data from journal articles. They want us to understand the importance of evidence-based practice, so they want us to be able to analyze studies that have been done on different examination tools, as well as intervention strategies. So for our exam, we have a few articles to prepare, and the test will determine how well we understand the data presented. Sounds simple, straightforward.

But the questions aren't "What is the purpose of this study?"
They're more like, "On Table 2 from this article, referring to the surgery/no surgery data, state the question being asked by that ANOVA using example-specific terminology."
And the answer, of course, to this question taken from our practice quiz, is this:
Was the measured difference between patients who had surgery and those who did not have surgery due to more than chance alone?

I like the way this professor teaches stats, because she really explains what all the different calculations are measuring. But let me tell you, by the end of this exam, I'm not going to be able to think in real-life sentences! My brain is going to be so convoluted, I'll be speaking in double negatives!

The exam is tomorrow. Ash Wednesday. How appropriate:
"Remember, man, that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return."