AP Statistics Design Activity Experiment, Factors, Double Blind Test, Statistically Significant, Multiple Analysis, Control Group, Replication, Observational Study, Lack of Realism, Blind Test, Random Assignment, Confounding Variables, Treatment, Media Bias, Placebo, Anecdotal Evidence, Response Variable, Psychological Effects, Control, Subjects w "we take surveys every day of the week then use the data from Media Bias the one that is most like what we expected to find Blind Test Freddy, our subject, is not told which drink is Coke and which is Pepsi as he does his taste test. Afounddily variable the subjects are made to take certain combinations of medicine for these trials even if they were not taking medication before Freddy must take exactly 100 mg of Dovamine and 75 mg of Razopan and one red placebo we repeat the experiment several times with different subjects and get the same result, confirming our beliefs we test the car in perfect conditions and show that it gets 26 miles per gallon so we tell customers it gets 26 miles per gallon if Lenny knows he's getting a lot of caffeine he expects to be very awake and focused during the testing we measure your attitude, feelings about success and others and measures of how much you care to see if our anti-depression medication is working subjects are not allowed to use any other medications during the clinical trials for Razopan the 87 people who take the testing medication Grootral Group these people get 0 mg of the tested medication the difference between the genders [in response to the medication] was very great. This would not have happened just due to differences in individuals regardless of gender. the little sugar pill we give some subjects that tastes like the real medication the set of different medications we will use to make the treatments required for our experiment the local TV station reports statistics that make the governor look bad even though there are other statistics that would make him look good subjects are taking other medications [they are not supposed to take] that are affecting their responses to the tested medications find out if they have side effects we interview people who are already taking the medication to we do not tell Freddy the subject or the skin doctor examining him which skin medication he got in the experiment Anecdotal Evidence to convince people that Americans are angry we find a few ration really angry people and interview them to make a good TV news segment we have 1400 subjects to put in 14 groups. We put them in groups by drawing their numbers out of a hat rather than letting them choose a group