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Assignment:
Your job: Design an experiment to test whether having a border collie emotional support animal leads to improved performance on a psychology exam. In doing so, answer the following questions (answer each question separately/in bullet points - it shouldn't be a huge essay!)
1. What is the IV and DV? What would your conditions of the IV be and how many conditions would you have? What would you measure for the DV?
2. What are some confounding/extraneous variables to be to be aware of? How would you try to control for those?
3. Would you run this is a between or within-subjects design? Why? What are some issues that would make you choose one over the other? How many people per group?
4. Based on YOUR design, which statistical test should be used to analyze the data?
5. If your results are statistically significant, does that definitively prove that one method is better than the other? Explain why or why not? What type of error could you be making?
6. If your results are NOT statistically significant, does that definitively prove that there is no difference? What type of error could you be making and what are some factors that could leading you to making this error?