Potato Experiment Essay

In the paper entitled, “An Experimental Examination of Rational Rent Seeking,” Potters, de Vries and van Winden (1998) explore the power of the rent-seeking model through laboratory experiments. Rent Seeking was an idea that was first developed by Gordon Tullock in 1967 in his classic paper, “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft.” In this paper, he discusses three separate but still related phenomena. Firstly with tariffs, he considers how import-competing industries spend real…

While the experiment was indeed fascinating to watch, several strengths and weaknesses existed in the research. In the beginning of the episode, Adam and Jamie went to Stanford University to look for a suitable measure for pain tolerance. They were introduced to four standard measures of pain, including extreme heat, capsaicin injection, electricity, and cold pressor test by Dr. Chu, who specialize in pain. After testing out themselves, the hosts of the show chose the cold pressor test (Rees,…

understand was that we could not adapt so easily. By day 3, we were feeling the effects that the lack of technology was having on us, and by day 5, we were completely ready to throw in the towel (and we all did). During the various steps of our experiment, we did make a big change to our methodology. Namely, we decided to include a survey, which we gave out to young children at Saint John’s Catholic School. We found that even at an early age, kids were beginning to ingratiate technology into…

Throughout our lifetime we are always in the pursuit of knowledge. This search of knowledge is part of being a rational thinking human being. In the “Meno”, Socrates is given a logical dilemma in the form of Meno’s Paradox that questions our ability as humans to learn anything at all. There have been many ways people have answered this dilemma. Socrates answers this dilemma through his Theory of Recollection. This may not be the best way to answer Meno’s Paradox and there might be a better way…

life that has had a major impact on me is an organization called Kids Are Scientists Too. KAST is a student-run non-profit corporation that aims to inspire young scholars to be interested in science and learning through fun, interactive science experiments led by passionate teachers. I was one of those passionate teachers. When I first heard of KAST, I immediately knew that I could contribute to the organization. I applied to become the lead at an elementary school, and after I was deemed fit…

pose a limitation. Without being able to reach the participants, it could then cause the amount of availability or the number of subjects in the design to decrease. Also, if the researcher that is conducting the experiment does not have enough information on the topic prior to the experiment, it could pose an issue concerning validity. In conclusion, the purpose of this experimental design is to examine if watching a violent video over a certain timespan relates to a higher level of aggressive…

material, work and communicate with others, and become proficient professionals in science and engineering fields. From my own personal experience, I have performed experiments testing the relationship between various parameters involved with rotary calciners such as angle of incline, speed of rotation, and feed rate. The experiments have to be designed such that one variable is changed while the others are kept constant. This kind of experimental design is important in testing certain physics…

Employees working for a large government office report fatigue and lack of motivation around 2:00 pm each day. An experiment could test if 15 minutes of walking, during the morning break and during the afternoon break, would decrease these symptoms. The control group would not be active during breaks and experimental group will walk. Each would then self-report fatigue. Participants will be broken into two groups randomly. The experimental group will take fifteen-minute break in the morning at…

are alike in the way that “he cares indefinitely more for science than for mankind. His patients are interesting to him only as subjects… he would sacrifice human life.” (Male 105). At the end of each short story, someone dies because of a failed experiment. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Baglioni is the opposite of Rappaccini, as he is a scientist and professor who respects the art of science . Baglioni is much more outgoing, and can also be seen as the “normal conscience”, because he did not…

The introduction to this experiment goes over the background knowledge and purpose of this entire experiment along with the ideas/theories and hypothesis as well. Starting off with the background knowledge, two scientists named Vandello and Bosson, made the assumption in their research Precarious Manhood that the whole concept of manhood is “hard won and easily lost.” This means that it is easy for the title of “manhood” to be revoked from men and close to impossible to gain it back fully and…