Sampling
If you wanted to find out how many Australians supported the controversial Emu War of 1919, this would be your population.
What is the Australian Population?
If you are making an imitation of chance-based behavior based on a model that accurately reflects your experiment, you are doing this.
What is a simulation?
If you wanted to find out how your hogs react to different types of cheese in their diets, what are your experimental units?
What are the hogs?
Oh no! Almost everyone you're calling in your phone survey is hanging up! You're the victim of this type of bias.
What is nonresponse?
This is what results when a large feline defecates on your floor.
What is fat cat scat?
If you performed a survey by knocking on people's doors at midday, you might be susceptible to this form of bias.
What is undercoverage?
This tool, much to my chagrin, can be used to produce randomized data without a calculator.
What is a Random Digit Table?
You want to determine how good people are at sinking their free throws based on their height. If you first split the subjects into men and women, you are performing this.
What is a block experiment?
What is wording bias?
A small movie theater advertises its film on yellow insects.
What is a peewee bee marquee?
Surveys on things like political talk shows are generally seen as unusable due to this type of bias.
What is response bias?
These numbers would be used on Table B in order to choose from two dozen students to participate in your experiment.
What are 01-24?
This type of experiment is useful for testing two types of treatment, such as two types of pesticide for your crop harvests.
What is a matched-pairs experiment?
You're not doing an experiment if you don't actively test for anything. Instead, you're doing this.
What is an observational study?
A sacred altar that you use to hold your high quality alcohol.
What is a fine wine shrine?
If you split your deck of cards into suits and chose four from each, you would have done this kind of sampling.
What is stratified?
If you need to choose twelve people out of a group of 100 with no extra specifications, this basic type of sampling may be the best option.
What is Simple Random Sample?
If subjects don't know which group they fall under in an experiment, it is known as this. If the people working with them don't either, it is doubly so.
What is blind?
If your experiment's results are basically impossible to happen by pure random chance, they are this.
What is statistically significant?
This is what you would call an agreement against vandalism made in an island nation.
What is a Tahiti Graffiti Treaty?
If you wanted to produce clusters of individuals during sampling, like the US Census might want to do, you would use this sampling technique that requires multiple rounds.
What is multistage sampling?
If you used line 123 of the random digit table to pick five random letters of the alphabet (A=1, B=2...), you would get this set of letters.
What is HOGJZ?
In medical experiments, this is commonly given to around half of the subjects in order to control for lurking variables. Sugar pills are a common example in the media.
What is a placebo?
Who is Ronald A. Fisher?
What is a spiritual lyrical miracle?