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Originally Posted by jamesqf
If I understand what you've written, your report coould be summarized in one sentence: "10 samples is not enough for statistical significance."
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+1 however as the question is "made up" your answers are kind of what the teachers are looking for so you should be OK from the course point of view.
The conclusions in the paper are flawed because there is no "uniform" use of "burial pits" in the UK. Unless you have records of the time (possible given "parish records" created by the local church) you don't really know what went on.
For example if a local village had an outbreak of flu which killed a few people (say 20) they might make a mass grave, especially if the victims were poor. They might also decide to reopen that pit if another mass death took place which seeing as there was no mass Immunisation at the time would be likely if anyone from over 5 miles away passed through.
The location of "death pits" is unknown. For example there is a project to make a cross city rail link in London which is being built just now and they have hit quite a few "death pits" of unknown origin during the build.
There are similar death pits more or less the world over, even in the US.