https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb unit 4- experimental study- probs/stats- fall 2017 shannon porter and eli en-us 2017-11-07 15:40:08 UTC 2026-01-30 19:57:47 UTC hello@padlet.com sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428250 will goldfish snacks help you study? ]]> 2017-11-07 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428250 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428670 we went to boulder creek high school on three different days to do our study! our experimental units were freshman, sophomores, juniors, seniors. we did not know them individually. just as a collective whole. ]]> 2017-11-07 16:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428670 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428893 160 kids from the school were picked based on there grades. but our principal Ms. Sutton had to agree to let us experiment on the kids. we selected 40 kids from each grade to be apart of our study. ]]> 2017-11-07 16:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204428893 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204429001 160 (40 people per grade) students were randomly picked to eat different flavor goldfish while studying. 13 people from each grade will either receive no goldfish extra cheddar goldfish or rainbow goldfish.]]> 2017-11-07 16:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204429001 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204894799 if highschoolers eat extra cheddar goldfish then it will help them stay focused while they are studying for class. ]]> 2017-11-08 16:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/204894799 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206294861 we randomized how we picked the students, by where they live on campus and how many hours they study. we would still have some lurking variables such as the type of goldfish they actually like as well as if they are in a dorm and how there roommates act. ]]> 2017-11-13 15:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206294861 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206304812 our explanatory variable is the goldfish snacks and wether or not the different flavors effect how their grades. ]]> 2017-11-13 15:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206304812 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206306334 the control group of our study would be the group with no goldfish. this is because these study habits would not change do to the fact that he/she does not have goldfish to help. ]]> 2017-11-13 15:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206306334 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206308771 this experiment can't be blind. this is because the student can easily tell which goldfish they are receiving. it also can't be double blind because we know what kind of goldfish we are giving the students. ]]> 2017-11-13 15:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206308771 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206315987 we could use this study with the two different genders. we could use this because boys and girls study differently. and just watch the different ways they study. ]]> 2017-11-13 16:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206315987 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206317604 we are doing this study 40 students from each grade. the margin of error is 15.81. this is a large margin of error which is not really good but we could change that by getting more students from each grade. ]]> 2017-11-13 16:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206317604 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206501540 this experiment could be done again later in life. fro example next year when the students in the grades are a year older. we could replicate it by switching the testaments for the experimental units. ]]> 2017-11-13 21:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206501540 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206502283 the goldfish with the best results are the rainbow ones. the students that received this fish studies the best  ]]> 2017-11-13 21:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206502283 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206506488 the previous statement recorded that people studying usually do better while consuming rainbow goldfish. this is because the student potentially used the different colors as rewards. ]]> 2017-11-13 21:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206506488 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206506965 our team is just eli and i and we make 20$ an hour each day we came to the school and picked out the kids. we worked a total of 47 hours on this whole project. the kids we picked we asked them if they wanted to be in the study so that was no cost there. but buying all the goldfish cost a total of 50$. and we gave the principal and the teachers a 25$ dutch gift card for helping us. 
salaries: 2 x 20 x 47= 4,094$
gift cards: 5x 25= 125$
goldfish: 3x16= 50$
total: 4,269$

]]> 2017-11-13 21:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206506965 sptr720 https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206511354 the outcome for our experiment was that rainbow goldfish was the best to study with. the way that the students studied was different depending on how many goldfish and what flavor they got]]> 2017-11-13 22:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sptr720/dkeh3qgo7xyb/wish/206511354