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The article “Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine” by Timothy Guinnane and Cormac O Grada brings up some interesting points. The article is focused on mortality rates in workhouses in Northern Ireland during the Great Famine. One thing that I noticed in the article is that they only used information form a single workhouse. I don’t believe this is an accurate way to represent mortality rates or an accurate way for people to study this part of history. Using only one workhouse is a very small sample size and there could have been variables at that specific workhouse which weren’t taken into account. The researchers also could have been biased, considering that the topic is so important, and trying to push for change. My classmate JN made a similar point when they said “no data is immune to outside conditions.” The public is not generally involved in the processes of these studies, so how can people blindly trust the information that they provide?