Question

A bakery makes apple pies with Golden Delicious apples. To save money, they would like to start using Red Deliciousapples in their pies but want to test whether the change in the type of apple makes a difference in the taste of the pies.They ask a random sample of their customers in one day to taste test both ples. The customers do not know which piecontains which type of apple. What is the most accurate description of this study?A) single-blind experimentB) double-blind experimentC) observationD) experiment

Answer 1

In order to determine what is the most accurate description of the given study, you take into account the following definitions:

- A single-blind experiment is one in which only the researchers know the treatement that participants of the study are receiving.

- A double-blind experiment is one in which neither the participants of the study nor the researchers know who is receiving a particular treatment.

- In an observation a researcher only tries to identify important features of a specific situation, without intercat with participants.

- In an experiment, researcher construct different kinds of situation in which they can point out relation between causes and effects.

According to the previous definitions, you can conclude that the most accurate description of the study that bakery makes, is the single-blind experiment. This is because the bakery knows the type of aples of each apple pie while people don't. This corresponds to a case in which only researcher know the treament that the participants receive.