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Abnormal Psychology (Thursday, 1:00 p.m., 12/15/2005)
There is a note on the whiteboards:
Sign in and go work on your experiments. By next Tuesday, I need the following answers as the completion of your final project:
1. What were your results?
2. Did the majority of your results (more than 50%) match your hypothesis and predicted result? Please include at least one example. (OOC: A link is OK if you don't want to write it out.)
4. If your results did not match your predicted result, what would you change about your experiment?
5. What did you like or dislike about the experiment you chose?
OOC: I was going to have you guys do a paper, but hopefully this is easier. Please post your results in this thread by next Tuesday. I'll post final grades on Wednesday. There'll be a comment thread for link drops if you have them, and those will increase your finalfake score.
OCD comment threadscoming shortly are sort of up. Some of them aren't showing up, and I don't know why. If a bunch of threads all titled the same suddenly show, now you know why.
Sign in and go work on your experiments. By next Tuesday, I need the following answers as the completion of your final project:
1. What were your results?
2. Did the majority of your results (more than 50%) match your hypothesis and predicted result? Please include at least one example. (OOC: A link is OK if you don't want to write it out.)
4. If your results did not match your predicted result, what would you change about your experiment?
5. What did you like or dislike about the experiment you chose?
OOC: I was going to have you guys do a paper, but hopefully this is easier. Please post your results in this thread by next Tuesday. I'll post final grades on Wednesday. There'll be a comment thread for link drops if you have them, and those will increase your final
OCD comment threads
Re: Experiment Summary
In our experiment, we had five volunteers complete a series of three Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. All were timed, three knowingly and three unknowingly. The object was to determine if ordinary humans are better at problem-solving under pressure.
As you can see here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/lady_jessica_bg/3499.html),
the 2 "untimed" subjects took from about 30 minutes to 4 hours, whereas the 3 timed subjects took from about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Broots had predicted that the timed subjects would be slower; however, we found this to be false, as in the case of our slowest timed, John, to our slowest untimed, Ivanova. However, we also found that the majority of times were in the 30-35 minute range, so it is also possible that native problem-solving ability has more to do with results than pressure or the lack of pressure.
If we were to change any details of the experiment, we would probably reconsider the sample size. Our volunteers were gathered on short notice, and so the range of abilities within our volunteers probably affected the experiment results more than it should have.
We liked the experiment because who really doesn't enjoy a good logic puzzle now and then? Besides, it probably tests mental abilities better than, for example, a spelling bee.