Name of group members:

BIO 111 Lab #1 (Hypothesis testing)

Date ________

ACTIVITY A:
Answer the following questions about Dr.Marsh’s experiment:
1) List some dependent variables in the experiment.

2) List some independent variables in the experiment.

3) List controlled variables in the experiment.

4) List randomized variables in the experiment.

5) List uncontrolled and unrandomized variables.

6) What is the purpose of the placebo group?

7) What would you do if you found a ‘placebo effect’?

8) What would you change about the experimental design?

9) Dr.Marsh’s drug has a 5% probability that the difference between experimental and
placebo group is due to chance. As a researcher, how will you proceed next before
declaring that the drug has an effect on reducing polyp size?

10) Why was it a good idea NOT to group the 2 experimental groups based on gender, ie,
one gender gets the drug and one gender gets the placebo. Why would gender become
a ‘confounding variable’ in this case?

ACTIVITY B
1) Frame a hypothesis about the experiment with crickets.

2) Results:
Treatment # of males # of females Total
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Name of group members:

BIO 111 Lab #1 (Hypothesis testing)

Date ________

3) Based on your goodness of fit Chi-squared test, complete the table:

Observed Expected O-E (O-E)2 (O-E)2/E

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Sum

4) Compare Calculated experimental chi-squared value and critical chi-squared value from
table ( research tool kit)

Calculated chi-squared value________________

Critical value from chi-squared table _______________________ ( p=0.05)

5) How likely is that any differences occurred due to chance. Is p less than or greater than
5% and what does this mean for your conclusion? Do you agree with your MULL
hypothesis or will you discard your NULL hypothesis and agree with your experimental
hypothesis? Explain.

6) Craft an alternate hypothesis that you could test based on the same experimental set-
up.