Vocabulary
Data collection that involves watching subjects in a real life scenario without their knowledge.
What is an observation?
These are the two groups an experiment is broken into.
What are control/placebo and experimental/study?
Type of experimental design wherein study participants are matched based on key variables, or shared characteristics, relevant to the topic of the study
What is match-pair?
Data collected by having groups where we conduct a test and compare the outcomes.
What is an experiment?
This is the effect in human where people respond to treatments even when they get no actual medicine.
What is placebo?
Outside variables that impact an experiment
What are confounding variables?
Using multiple subjects for the treatments
What is replication?
Data collection where we need to experiment but it is too dangerous for people
What is a simulation?
When either the researcher or the participants know which group of the experiment they are in.
What is single blind?
Name one way to randomly assign subjects into a group.
What is (vary)?
Things we keep constant in order to see the treatment effects better
What is control?
Data collection where we survey part of the population.
What is a sample?
The act of putting subjects into the two groups of the experiment in no set order to avoid potential bias.
What is randomization?
Name one experiment performed in class.
What is ....?
At least two treatment groups
What is a comparison?
Happens when we unfairly overrepresent one or more groups in a sample.
What is bias?
The ability to reproduce the results of an experiment when it is done multiple times.
What is replication?
Design forms groups of experimental units that are similar with respect to a variable.
What is block design?