Please help critique this article on bacteria found on the link below:?

Question

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2672.1998.853512.x?prevSearch=allfield%3A%28bacteria+and+bread%29

Thanks for any help u can give

Please click on Full Text on the right hand menu to view the full article. I appreciate any start, so that I have some idea of what to do next.

Starla_ please help.

Answer 1

^ You can access to full article if you are lucky.

Anyway, I'm not a bactariologist, but I can comment on some generals.

The analysis and statistics is pretty poor. Surely they could have analysed the amount of bactaria on the bread via a slightly less subjective manner. They don't even say the people who rated the bread slices - to +++++ were blind to there treatment groups. But surely they could have done better than that as well. Also the statistics on the pH; they should have adjusted the alpha level for multiple comparisons. Finally they could have done non-parametric tests on the bactaria grade.

Answer 2

This isn't an article - it's an abstract. It's just a summary without knowing any of the details. If you need to critique a journal article for an assignment, you would need the entire paper (Intro, materials & methods, results, discussion, and conclusion).

ADDITION: I tried again, and still can't get the full article to open.