14/03/2023

Designing an experiment

Descriptive statistics - measures of central tendancy (mean, median, mode)

- measures of dispersion (standard deviation and range)

Inferential stats - correlation shown at a 5% level and why it's significant

- OV & CV

Justify the choices with appropriate explanations, but don't use all your time defining things.

This is the only time you can use 'I'

The IV is ____ and the DV is _____, measured by ______. A change in the DV is calculated, providing
_____(nominal, ordinal, interval) data.

Take part in a questionaire, wait, do it again. Take part in a questionaire, do exercise, do it again.
Compare the two groups and draw possible conclusions from it. Specifics about the environment/setup
that the experimenter will use.

Questionnaire to see how much coffee they drink per day, get students in 4 groups: 0 cups, 1 cup, 2 cups,
decaffeinated coffee drinkers (not common so they *may* not need to be split up). For each group, get
them to take a highly-accredited memory test and collect the data and sum them up in each group.
Compare and evaluate the data and discuss the potential implications of caffeine on memory.