Questions tagged [experiments]
a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
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Are some laundry detergents better than others?
As we were looking for laundry detergent yesterday, I noted that my wife was quite swayed by brand reputation/impressions than price. She stated that she didn't think one type of detergent really ...
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Are most published results relying on measures of statistical significance likely to be false?
This article, linked to by Glen, claims most published results are false. The argument is based on an analysis of how papers relying on statistical significance analyse and report their statistical ...
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Experiments about the "power of thoughts" on cooked rice
Over the past few months a number of people (who don't know each other) have been telling me that I should try a "power of thoughts" experiment that's also known as "the rice experiment." They're ...
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Did a prisoner die from a needle prick when he was told that it was a snake bite?
I read somewhere that there was a prisoner facing a death sentence sometime before the 1950s, on whom a psychological experiment was conducted.
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He was blindfolded and told that he would be ...
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Is this video of the Soviet Dog Revival Experiment real?
In this video a dog's head is brought back to life by artificially injecting blood and air. The dog's head reacted to sound and touch and used its tongue to taste.
I am not skeptic about its ...
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Did the "Russian Sleep Experiment" happen?
While talking about scary things and war, my girlfriend acted surprised when she found that I don't know what "Nikolayev gas" is. When I opened up wikipedia and didn't find
anything she told ...
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Is yogurt affected by human emotions?
The documentary I Am (Wikipedia) (YouTube video) makes a number of claims, including that more signals are sent from the heart to the brain than vice-versa, and that the your emotion or mood can have ...
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Do people's IQs change?
In a 1968 study of the Pygmalion Effect:
Rosenthal and Jacobson gave an intelligence test to all of the students at an elementary school at the beginning of the school year. Then, they randomly ...
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