EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
- Explores cause and effect relationships {Eating too much bananas causes..}
Experimental Group: The condition of an experiment that exposes participants to the treatment
- Recieves the Independent Variable.
EXPERIMENTAL METHOD
- Blind Study: subjects are unaware if assigned to experimental or control group.
- Double blind study: Neither subjects nor experimenters know which group is control or experimental.
Descriptive Statistic: Describe the results of research.
Inferential Statistic: Used to make an inference or draw a conclusion beyond the raw data.
Central Tendency: Where does the center of the data tend to be?
Mode: The most frequent occuring
Mean: Arithmetic Average
Median: Middle Score in a rank-ordered distibution
Range: Difference between highest and lowest score in a distribution
Standard Deviation: A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean.
- High Standard Deviation: Scores too spread out.
1 Talk Back(s):
I am sort of confused in Double-Blind Study. Could you elaborate in how the experiment would be finalized if both the subject and experimenters have no knowledge of who is control and who is experimental?
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