What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?
To find out whether drinking tea regularly lowers the level of individual’s ”bad” cholesterol (may lead to heart disease and diabetes) and obesity.
What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?
Individual’s health condition.
What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)
Experimental design would best suit my research question.
What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)
I would use experiment to testify if those who consume tea frequently have higher probability staying away from obesity and high cholesterol level. And so, I would assign one group who have tea everyday and another group who don’t.
If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?
I would put tea as independent variable and participants’ healths as dependent variable.
Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.
I think those who consume tea as daily beverage would have better health than those who don’t.
What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?
Everyone, especially those who are already or ”on the border” having high cholesterol and obesity, would gain from it as it provides guideline for individuals to lose fat and body weight and reduce ”bad” cholesterol.
Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?
The difficult part would be collecting participants for this experiment as people normally would reject to take part in something they don’t feel interested in or consider they will not be rewarded afterward.
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