Design a fictional statistical experiment of your choice. In one page explain your experiment in detail from the sampling process to the conclusion. Justify every process. If there are one or two potential flaws in the experiment that you couldn’t quite eliminate, explain what they are and why they are difficult to eliminate. Eight of the following key words must be appropriately used in your explanation:
Population
Sample
Parameter
Statistic
Explanatory variable
Response variable
Experimental unit
Variability/Variation
Placebo
Control group
Choose to be a psychologist who would like to know whether music affects a teenager’s ability to perform difficult thinking tasks. You need to explain how you would get the volunteers to participate in your study and about how many you will need. You need to justify your choice of thinking task. You need to explain whether you will divide the volunteers into groups, how, and why. Finally, you need to explain how you will interpret the results.(cannot use this example)
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