Associate Professor Robert D. Perl, AIA
Carefully
study Exercise 08 of the student two folders ahead of you in alphabetical
order.
Write two pages. Critique the proposed operational definition and the type and
strength of manipulation of the independent variable. Comment on the type
and sensitivity of the dependent variable. Include participant and experimenter
expectation effects.
Offer a redesign of the experiment testing the same hypothesis. Address these same issues of experimental design. Is the second design better? Explain your evaluation.
Load "ex09" in Microsoft Word format on the server before 9:00 am. Friday, Oct. 27. Save a backup file.