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Kristen Berglund Biostatistics 206-102 Dr.

Windsor Aguirre 11/3/2013 Project Outline: Title: A Delicious Decision Objective: The purpose of the behavioral experiment is to test if there is significant difference between how a decision is influenced and not influenced in any way. Also, the experiment aims to test if there is bias in a persons decision, depending on the influence or lack thereof. Null Hypothesis: There is no significant difference between how the subject picks and which influence is presented to the subject. Alternative Hypothesis: There is a significant difference between how the subject picks and which influence is presented to the subject. Justification: This behavioral study will test how bias and external influences affect a persons way of deciding. It is a worthwhile study to show if a person is more likely to attempt to prevent the influence from making the subjects decision or if the influence drives the subjects decision. Methods: Because this experiment will test how frequently a subject picks a certain way in accordance to which influence is presented, a Chi-Squared test of Independence will be employed. This is because the experiment tests for association between categorical variables. Data: This data will be collected in three days. The subject will be asked to pick a hand that I will present in order to guess the correct hand for which candy is underneath (though both hands will have candy in them). On the first day of data collection, I will show my closed right hand only to the patients, hide both hands behind my back, and then ask them to choose which hand has the candy from both of my hands. On the second day, I will follow procedure completely the same, but show my left closed hand first before allowing them to choose. On the

third day of data collection, I not show either hand, and see which one they pick. Regardless of which day of data collection it is, I will record which hand is picked in accordance to which influence was shown (whether that be right closed hand, left closed hand, or nothing shown).

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