The Time Period

The time period within which something was published can give some insight into what the story may have impacted or how it might have been received by people during that time. Events during a time period can also affect the authors of the source in deciding whether to publish something at that specific time.

Locally Grown
    I decided on Bristol to count as the local place for the setting since a majority of authors for the main source are located at the University of Bristol.
      A local news story that may have effected the publishing date of the main source is from the Bristol Post; an article about how there was a healthcare conference being hosted in Bristol on approaching health issues within the area. This could have affected the release date of the paper if they perhaps wanted it to be talked about at the meeting about how statistical matters in medical practices
       Another story from the same online newspaper for Bristol news regarded a "catch up programme" for getting kids vaccines done. Not a direct relation to the source at all, but was generally in the science and medical news in the surrounding area.

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Nationally Known
      In United Kingdom news at the time of the publishing of the article there was another neuroscience study being published as well. In the Daily Mail Online site, on thehe exact same day as the study on statistical power was published, an article was released describing brain scans that could detect pain. The possible connection between the two is that they both detail a study within the neuroscience community and they could compete for attention from audience.
     Another important event happening around this time period in the UK was election time was coming up during the month of April, not necessarily very important towards the specific article or study but important for the idea that may have been going around within the nation.

Internationally Flown
     In international news in the year of 2013 there were quite a few things of dangerous proportions happening and catastrophes left and right. Something that would happen to change how the world would come to view national security and privacy was Edward Snowden leaking NSA secrets and running to Russia for asylum. Not directly linked to this controversy but important for international news at that point.
     In more scientific news in 2013, only little more than a month after this study was published another scientific study with important implications came about; scientists in Oregon were able to create stem cells with cloning, a defining moment for science and one many believed to be the next step in larger enterprises.