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Experiment
variables
Correlation
Bell curves
100
The control group was given a pill containing nothing but sugar. However the experimental group received extremely potent chocolate. The pill the control group received is called...
What is A placebo.
100
The X-axis is usually the...
What is Independent variable
100
A mutual connection between two or more variables.
What is Correlation.
100
A curve that looks like a bell could be described as a
What is normal distribution
200
A data set contains twenty numbers the five highest numbers are 100, 97,89,87,89. The five lowest numbers are 50, 49,61,61,67. The range of this data set...
What is 51
200
The group that gets tested on and receives the variable is...
What is the experimental group.
200
A variable that changes based on the other variable is known as...
What is dependent variable
200
When one variable increases the other increases and vice versa.
What is Positive correlation
200
A normal curve within the first Std. Deviation holds __% of data.
What is 68
300
On a farm, Mr. Farmer owns 20 exotic animals. All of his exotic animals eat the same kind of food, lobsters. With 350 pounds of lobster just sitting around, how many pounds should he give to each animal in order to evenly distribute the lobster pounds.
What is 17.5 pounds of lobster
300
This effect happens to the control group that takes a sugar pill. Their data may be skewed higher or lower because subjects feel as if the symptoms are happening to them even though they have not taken the real pill. This effect is known as...
What is the placebo effect
300
A variable that produces error in an experiment or a variable that effects either or both the X,Y axis is known as a...
What is confounding variable
300
When one variable increases the other decreases and vice versa.
What is negative correlation
300
A number that shows how spread out your data is. This number is given to show you how far away one data point is from the mean.
What is Standard deviation.
400
Mr. Farmer's best friend, Mr. Sneeze, decided to open up a frat house next to the farm. One night, a bunch of people showed up. Here is a list of all the people's age who showed up, 6, 10, 15, 32, 46, 53, 65, 90, 110 (Mr. Sneeze). What is the median of these people.
What is 46 years old.
400
Mr. Farmer, is tracking 1 animal for a period of time marking the animals every movement. In this case, Mr. Farmer is making a...
What is Case study.
400
Mr. Farmer ran an experiment. He wanted to research the speed of a car over time. However he realized that the air temperature was affecting his results because the car would slow when temperatures got hotter. List respectively, (independent, dependent, and/or confounding variable)
What is (time, Speed, Air temperature)
400
Number between -1 and +1 that represents how correlated or linear two variables are together.
What is correlation coefficient
400
Data within +/- 2 standard deviations of the mean on a normal bell curve hold __% of the population.
What is 99
500
During one of the parties, Mr. Farmer was showing his most recent data collected. He recorded the amount of food one exotic wombat ate over the course of a year. Here is what he collected, 20, 15, 35, 60, 45, 11, 6, 40, 99, and 400. The median of this data is...
What is 37.5
500
To ensure that there is no error in his data, Mr. Sneeze does not let the doctor nor the patient know what group each patient is in to ensure the doctor does not give information. In this case, This procedure is known as...
What is Double blind procedure
500
Mr. Farmer is once again watching cars drive by and he is marking how fast a car takes getting from one block to the next. For this Mr. Farmer dresses up like a chicken waits for a car and runs side by side with the car while he times the car. What might be the confounding variable in this scenario?
What is Drivers think Mr. Farmer is crazy and either slow to laugh or speed up to get away quicker, this skews his results.
500
Mr. Farmer notices that the higher number of chickens in a pen would lead to fewer lucky eggs (lucky eggs is his signature brand) being produced. This is a...
What is negative correlation
500
A number that shows the probability that the results of a given experiment or study could have happened simply by chance is known as...
What is Statistically significant