Emily Rosa (9 y/o)

Therapeutic touch

• 43.000 health care professionals
• breathtaking claims
• placebo efect? or real effect of treatment ?
• few experimental studies

she collected data for a class project and later for a tv show

well done study!

• pilot
• side based on coin flip (where she would hold her hand (non predictable))
• ‘’pass’’ = at least 8 out of 10 (decided beforehand (4% guess chance alfa)) if this happend they retested them
• alternative explenations of the practitioners themself

empirical cycle

deduction is prediction

testing collecting data and analyse

test prediction: reject modify theory does the test support it?

cycle so multiple times of everything.

pupose of this practical

scientist are people (study arnt neccesairaly exelent quality)

to read scientific papers you need ot read them crittically

learn from doing

focus —> method and results

INFO about group project

usually better memory when studying categories

list order effect — explanation

affects awereness of categories

memory cues

• laction of items
• your experience
• other items
• categories

better cues lead to higher recall

categories are one of the better cues

use of categories depends on awereness (you need to notice the category)

design your experiment (MANUSCRIPT)

• whitin/between/mixed

choice of items:

• frequency (dont want to pick items that are easy to guess)