In this paper published by Timothy Guinnane and Cormac Grada, “Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine”, the authors\u00a0intend to show a correlation between the mortality rates in workhouses in Ireland, and the mortality rates due to the Great Famine, an incident that only plagued essentially people of lower class. While reading this study, I found it quite eye opening\u00a0that they only used the mortality rates from only one workhouse, instead of many to minimize outliers. One of my fellow classmates brought up an interesting point as well, writing that, “Data, here too, could be vary depending on perspective”. This brings up a new point that I hadn’t really thought about until now. If the people directing the study wanted to make a point, couldn’t they just choose one specific workhouse in order to prove their point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this paper published by Timothy Guinnane and Cormac Grada, “Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine”, the authors intend to show a correlation between the mortality rates in workhouses in Ireland, and the mortality rates due to the Great Famine, an incident that only plagued essentially people of lower class. While reading … <\/p>\n

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