Experimental Design

[Avis_de-Incendia]

Oh, well, it wouldn't fall off by itself, I think.

[2win]

WITH THE WEIGHTS
*palmhead*

[Avis_de-Incendia]

I think the electrical tape would fall off anything.

Maybe we should have used the bandaid...

ACK! I feel like an idiot now.

[2win]

Well, does anybody else have accounts of their ED test?

[sihT etupmoC]

Do you guys seperate the "jobs" you need to do among your team members? We had one person write, one person time, and one person conduct.

We split it up, if there are 3 pages, which there are usually. My one teammate gets all the variables and the other gets qualitative data and stuff, and i get the graphs. I'm a grapher. After we are all done making stuff up with the experiment we took a few minutes to do. Then we put everything back together, discuss it, and fluff it up like crazy, aka, more detail.

[sweetcoop]

Do you guys seperate the "jobs" you need to do among your team members? We had one person write, one person time, and one person conduct.

We split it up, if there are 3 pages, which there are usually. My one teammate gets all the variables and the other gets qualitative data and stuff, and i get the graphs. I'm a grapher. After we are all done making stuff up with the experiment we took a few minutes to do. Then we put everything back together, discuss it, and fluff it up like crazy, aka, more detail.

That sounds like what we did, there was one person that was writing, one to conduct the experment, and one person to graph

[nejanimb]

Does graphing really take that long? Graphing usually only seems to take a few minutes... right? And how long do most people take to perform the experiment?

Do you find that most Supervisors use the right rubric? I've found that ED seems to be one of those events that a lot of Supervisors decide to be crazy with - it's often run so poorly. Last year at regionals, for example, we had to do a "faux experiment" - make it like 'what if' - we made up data and had to write up the full lab... I had to find standard deviations and do regressions on data that I created!

[2win]

Graphing doesn't take long, it's only if you are waiting for the data, then it's long.

[EastStroudsburg13]

Do you guys seperate the "jobs" you need to do among your team members? We had one person write, one person time, and one person conduct.

I wish we could have done that, but since we had exactly 12 team members and nobody really wants to do more than 3 events on our team (the only two people with more than 3 events are freshmen, including me ), we could only have two, and that made the quality suffer a little. (see sig for place )

[sweetcoop]

Does graphing really take that long? Graphing usually only seems to take a few minutes... right? And how long do most people take to perform the experiment?

Do you find that most Supervisors use the right rubric? I've found that ED seems to be one of those events that a lot of Supervisors decide to be crazy with - it's often run so poorly. Last year at regionals, for example, we had to do a "faux experiment" - make it like 'what if' - we made up data and had to write up the full lab... I had to find standard deviations and do regressions on data that I created!

Well i take my time when i do the graphs just incase the supervisors will take off if you do not have straight lines so i took about 10 minutes