Activity 10


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:

  1. Large sample size
  2. Uses appropriate subjects (children)
  3. Safe on humans
  4. Built on previous research
  5. Hypothesis included
  6. Quantitave data collects: number of children medicine worked on 
  7. Identified variable that he wanted to test: effectiveness of medicine 

NOT INCLUDED:

  1. Multiple trials not discussed
  2. Did not prove safe on animals
  3. No mention of placebo group
  4. No procedures mentioned
  5. No Informed consent
  6. Initially tested on 3 humans, but only one of them was a child 
  7. No mention of medicine ACTUALLY working