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Apologia General Science Module 3 Analyzing & Interpreting Experiments

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Experimental variable   show
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Control (of an experiment)   show
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show Experiments in which the participants do not know whether or not they are a part of the control group  
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Double-blind experiments   show
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show surface tension  
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show Reduces the surface tension of water  
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show True  
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show Can be thought of as a thin film that stretches across the surface of every liquid  
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show the data being collected depends to some extent on the opinions of people  
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objective data   show
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pain threshold   show
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show the horizontal scale on a graph  
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y-axis   show
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show fake pills  
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show Is good when you are using it to learn something from the experiment. Should be reduced or eliminated when if effects the results of the experiment but you do not learn anything from it.  
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When is a single-blind experiment used?   show
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show When the data from the experiment will result in subjective data.  
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show When the subjects being studied are not people, but rather plants for example.  
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What is the one reason a test might be done as a double-blind experiment even though the data is objective and does not require this type of testing?   show
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