Question

A psychologist wants to know if the difficulty of a task influences our estimate of how long we spend working at it. She designs two sets of mazes that subjects can work through on a computer. Once set has easy mazes and the other has hard mazes. Subjects work until told to stop (after 6 minutes, but subjects do not know this). They are then asked to estimate how long they worked. The psychologist has 30 students available to serve as subjects.

Describe an experiment using a completely randomized design to learn the effect of difficulty on estimated time.

Answer 1

It is given that a psychologist wants to determine the difficulty of the task influences on the estimate of how long people spend working on it.

Now we have to describe a experiment by using a completely randomized design and learn the effect of the difficulty on the estimated time is by randomly assigning 15 students to a Group 1 of easy mazes and other 15 students to the second group 2 of hard mazes. And then we compare the time estimates of the two groups.