Question

Rick’s class plans to study the effect of eating different breakfast foods on grades in morning classes. Students in the class will be the test subjects for the investigation. Which of the following would most likely make the results of the experiment invalid?

Answer 1

Some students eat breakfast two hours before other students do.

Answer 2

Some of the things that would make the experiment invalid would be, if there was a variation in the behavior of the class with respect to food - for example, if some people ate their breakfast earlier than the others. This then would mean that some students would have already digested their breakfast during the morning classes and the others would still be digesting.