Beer and Masquitoes
Does consuming beer attract mosquitoes? A study done in Burkino Fase, Adrica, about the spread of malaria invest pated the connection between beer consumption and moriquito attraction
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In the coperiment, 25 volunteers consumed a liter of beer while is volunteers consumed a liter of water. The volunteers were asigned to the two groups randomly. The attractiveness to mosquitses of each volunteer was tested twice: before the beer or water and after. Mosquitoes were released and caucht in tracs as they approached the volunteers. For the beer group, the total number of mosquitoes caught in the traps before consurpotion was 434 and the total was 590 after consumption. For the water group, the total was 337 belore and 345 after.
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Lefvre T_et al. "Beer Consumption Increases Human Autractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes" 2010; 5(1)* e9546
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(a) Define the relevant parameter(s) and state the null and alternative hypotheses for a test to see K , after consumption the average number of mosquitoes is higher for people who drink beec.
Let group 1 be the people who drank beer and let group 2 be the people who drank water.