Sample Results Paragraph

Here is a sample results paragraph for the cholera experiment in your book. (Note that this uses first person, which is acceptable when talking about your own study.)

Our theory was that water polluted with sewage was responsible for the spread of cholera, not the ‘miasma.’ The results confirm that hypothesis.  Clearly the highest death toll was among households who drank water from the pump supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company which drew its supply from the polluted section of the Thames where sewage was disposed of.  Households using the water from the Lambeth Company had one-tenth the number of deaths from cholera. This water was drawn from the less polluted section of the river and it could be identified by the salt content.  There were some deaths in households who used the Lambeth Company also.  This is not surprising as people had to access their water from public pumps in the street so it is extremely likely that there would be some crossover perhaps because an individual did not want to queue at the Lambeth Company pump or because neighbors who used different water shared food or drink and so the infection could be spread that way.  There needs to be further testing to confirm the hypothesis, but because of the number of fatalities from cholera, the pumps supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company should be immediately closed.