Question

Medal will be given

Answer 1

A professor wants to determine whether performance in a statistics class can be influenced by the expectation of success. He will be teaching 9 sections of statistics over the next two years. He wants to tell the students in some sections that females perform better in statistics than males. In some other sections, he wants to say that males perform better in statistics than females. Design an experiment that uses both treatment groups and control groups.

Answer 2

you would track how well the females did and how well the males did and add it up to see if males or females did better

Answer 3

Many years ago, some doctors administered medication to patients themselves, as opposed to using a pharmacist. One curious yet unethical doctor decided to start giving all his patients sugar pills in place of the actual medication. To his surprise, many of his patients actually had their symptoms vanish despite not getting the actual medication. Explain how this might happen.

Answer 4

The actual medicine may have been prolonging the symptoms.