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How different types of drinks affect the ability to study? Coke vs Pepsi

by liangping.feng Posted on October 7, 2011

What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?

How different types of drinks affect the ability to study? Do student drink coke study better than student who drink pepsi?

What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?

Half of the class drink coke while they are studying, and the other half of the class drink pepsi while they are studying. I would like to observe which half of the class do better on the exam.

What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)

Correlational. The scores of the exam will tell the differences of drinking coke/pepsi affect the ability to focus, or study.

What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)

True experiment. 

If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?

Independent: Drinking coke/pepsi while students are studying. Dependent: The scores of the exam.

Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.

Students who drink coke while they’re studying tend to do better on exams.

What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?

If my hypothesis is true, coca-cola global would gain from this study because more students will tend to buy coke if they want to do better on their exams.

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 challenge that I faced on the process of designing this experiment was to choose the drinks to compare. I was going to compare red bull/monster to coffee, but I think it wasn’t creative enough so I shut down this comparison. I believed that most people couldn’t tell the differences between a coke/pepsi, so I chose to use this comparison because coke and pepsi had a 99% identical taste.

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by liangping.feng Posted on September 23, 2011

Hi everyone, my name is Liang Ping Feng, but I prefer you guys to call me Gary. As of now, I am a sophomore in Baruch. I grew up in China, and I came to the U.S few years ago. I am still undecided about my major: psychology? Maybe. I am interested in sleeping and procrastinating, and I like to play basketball when i got nothing to do. My favorite class so far in Baruch is Philosophy, a class that I think I will never interested in, but things are unpredictable, and it ended up to be my favorite class.

Nice to meet all of you, and let’s do our best in this course. Bye, time to sleep……………….

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