activity 10 sheet.pdf
Good Experimental Design:
Large Sample Size
Placebo group
Safe and effective on humans and animals
Hypothesis
Informed consent
Use of appropriate subjects
Lists procedures
built on previous research
Includes variables to be tested and variables to keep the same
Talks about Data to be collected
Title: Summer Fever Medicine
Good Experimental Design INCLUDED:
- Large sample size
- Uses appropriate subjects (children)
- Safe on humans
- Built on previous research
- Hypothesis included
- Quantitave data collects: number of children medicine worked on
- Identified variable that he wanted to test: effectiveness of medicine
NOT INCLUDED:
- Multiple trials not discussed
- Did not prove safe on animals
- No mention of placebo group
- No procedures mentioned
- No Informed consent
- Initially tested on 3 humans, but only one of them was a child
- No mention of medicine ACTUALLY working