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Winner Selected in
Limerick Contest
The Epidemiology Monitor has selected the best limerick submitted in
our contest to define a common word or phrase in epidemiology by
weaving humor into an accurate description of the meaning of the
selected word.
Winner and Honorable
Mention
The winner of the contest is Erika Brown, a PHD student at UC
Berkeley School of Public Health for her limerick describing BIAS.
Her winning limerick is:
Bias is often an
unavoidable error
Systematically skewing estimates with error
Hidden, social, or from recall
It sends validity into free fall
If only like Poisson’s tail end, it was rarer!
As winner, Erika will receive a $300 first prize.
A second limerick by
Janice Westenhouse also from the California Department of
Public Health was selected as runner up and deserves honorable
mention. It was on SURVEILLANCE and is presented below.
Disease can spread fast and furious
Explanations are often times spurious
Surveillance in action
Can give us traction
To find answers those who are curious.
Gift Card Winners
In addition, three gift cards worth $50 each are being awarded to
three readers who voted in our contest to help select the best slogan
and were chosen randomly to receive the cards. These lucky voters are:
Paul Cieslak,
Mary Ward,
National Cancer Institute
Maria Flores,
California Department of Public Health
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