Noo looks like she is ideally placed to support you with your enzymes assignment, but limitations and uses of health statistics is one you can apply to any statistics - and the uses are clear when it comes to being able to add weight to a scientific arguments - theorists that like quanlitative data feel that a study or theory is only credible if it is back up by statistics and figures - whereas qualitative theorists often feel that statistics can be skewed to support any theory whereas other types of data collection like interviews are more credible as they are direct and indepth representations of what real people think or believe.

Statistics are great when you want to know something like how many sections a unit does, but it cant give you other information such as the individual circumstances of each section.....

The Colin Rees book on Research for Midwives is great for understanding the uses and limitations of all forms of data collection.

J

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