Week 11 of 17
APRIL 6 TO 12
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
Using C. elegans, a roundworm about a millimetre long, in research. Does a simpler nervous system change the ethics, and where exactly is the line?
Independent, dependent, controlled, labeled on a sample experiment. I have half known this since middle school and never had to be precise about it.
Teams writing an actual research design: testable question, defined variables, target sample size.
CLASSMATE
Our sample size is optimistic. This paper used four times as many.
Find a credible source, name one strength and one weakness of our design against it. Reading a real paper is hard.
Sunday packet. I have started doing the audit before the work instead of after, which takes ten minutes and saves an argument.