{"id":342,"date":"2015-02-13T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=342"},"modified":"2015-02-13T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:56:00","slug":"prevalence-of-sickness-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/02\/13\/prevalence-of-sickness-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of Sickness in Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets7.classicfm.com\/2013\/04\/cough-1359541447-article-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"298\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday and Thursday of this week, I decided to observe some of the patterns of sickness that seem to be sweeping the campus this time of year. Over the length of each class (and the few minutes I was in the room before and after class), I recorded how many times I heard someone in the class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cough<\/li>\n<li>Sneeze<\/li>\n<li>Sniffle<\/li>\n<li>Clear his\/her throat<\/li>\n<li>Say the word &#8220;flu&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Say the word &#8220;cold&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Say the word &#8220;sick&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the data below, we can see a few trends. One obvious trend is that the all &#8220;sickness-related actions&#8221; seem to decrease on Thursday. However, some of this data could be skewed, because of\u00a0the fishbowl discussion. I did spend some time in the fishbowl, and I was not able to track these behaviors as closely as I hoped during that time. Even so, it seemed to me that the prevalence of &#8220;sickness-related actions&#8221; did indeed decrease during Thursday&#8217;s class.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 365px\" width=\"227\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"150\"><strong>Tuesday, Feb. 10th<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" width=\"17\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"150\"><strong>Thursday, Feb. 12th<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Action<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Occurrences<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Action<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Occurrences<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cough<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">26<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Cough<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sneeze<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">2<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Sneeze<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sniffle<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">23<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Sniffle<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clear throat<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">24<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Clear throat<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;Flu&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Flu&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;Sick&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">2<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Sick&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;Cold&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Cold&#8221;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday and Thursday of this week, I decided to observe some of the patterns of sickness that seem to be sweeping the campus this time of year. Over the length of each class (and the few minutes I was in the room before and after class), I recorded how many times I heard someone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/02\/13\/prevalence-of-sickness-in-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prevalence of Sickness in Class<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-2","category-observers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}