Correlation & Experiments
Article Headline: “Does Chocolate make you Clever?”
Link: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20356613
Claim: The claim made in the article is that eating more chocolate could make people more smart and maybe even produce more Nobel Prize Winners.
Correlational Evidence: Evidences shows there is a positive correlation with eating chocolate and the amount of Nobel laureates in each country.
Possible Explanations: (i) Papers say that cocoa is good for you, so this could be why people are cleverer when they eat more chocolate. (ii) The swedes eat the most chocolate and have the most prizewinners. However researchers say, small amounts of anything influence their intelligence. (iii) Sweden has a lot of money, which means they can …show more content…
A theory is like an idea or prediction a person has, but has little to no evidence to prove his or her theory. When a scientist wants to prove their theory he or she will design an experiment. Three main ways of collecting data for an experiment are natural observation, case studies, and surveys. The first research method is natural observation. Natural Observation is when the researcher will watch his or her test subjects without interacting with them or letting them know they are test subjects. For example, everyone knows that children act different when their parents are around than when they are with their friends. So if a parent wanted to really see how their child acted when an adult was not near by, they would watch them without the child knowing about it. The advantages about this method are the researcher would collect more accurate results. Furthermore, the responses of the test subjects would be more natural responses. However, the disadvantages of this method are that the researcher cannot control what is going on if they needed too. Also they may not get exactly what they …show more content…
Normally, a case study is a careful observation of the behavior or mental process on a single person. For example, if Steven’s friend went on a road trip where he was in a terrible accident and acted very strange when he came back then this would call for a case study. Like natural observation, case studies have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance, the strengths of case studies are it allows researchers to study rare cases that offered evidence and facts for later testing and incidents. On the contrary, the studies where scientist use case studies are not always the most reliable or truthful especially because it is about one person and not a variety of test
Article Headline: “Does Chocolate make you Clever?”
Link: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20356613
Claim: The claim made in the article is that eating more chocolate could make people more smart and maybe even produce more Nobel Prize Winners.
Correlational Evidence: Evidences shows there is a positive correlation with eating chocolate and the amount of Nobel laureates in each country.
Possible Explanations: (i) Papers say that cocoa is good for you, so this could be why people are cleverer when they eat more chocolate. (ii) The swedes eat the most chocolate and have the most prizewinners. However researchers say, small amounts of anything influence their intelligence. (iii) Sweden has a lot of money, which means they can …show more content…
A theory is like an idea or prediction a person has, but has little to no evidence to prove his or her theory. When a scientist wants to prove their theory he or she will design an experiment. Three main ways of collecting data for an experiment are natural observation, case studies, and surveys. The first research method is natural observation. Natural Observation is when the researcher will watch his or her test subjects without interacting with them or letting them know they are test subjects. For example, everyone knows that children act different when their parents are around than when they are with their friends. So if a parent wanted to really see how their child acted when an adult was not near by, they would watch them without the child knowing about it. The advantages about this method are the researcher would collect more accurate results. Furthermore, the responses of the test subjects would be more natural responses. However, the disadvantages of this method are that the researcher cannot control what is going on if they needed too. Also they may not get exactly what they …show more content…
Normally, a case study is a careful observation of the behavior or mental process on a single person. For example, if Steven’s friend went on a road trip where he was in a terrible accident and acted very strange when he came back then this would call for a case study. Like natural observation, case studies have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance, the strengths of case studies are it allows researchers to study rare cases that offered evidence and facts for later testing and incidents. On the contrary, the studies where scientist use case studies are not always the most reliable or truthful especially because it is about one person and not a variety of test