Category

Experiments

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thumb|Apollo 15 astronaut [[David Scott performs a gravity test on the Moon with a hammer and feather (1971).]] thumb|right|160px|Even very young children perform rudimentary experiments to learn about the world and how things work.

thumb|The Schuster Laboratory, [[University of Manchester (a physics laboratory)]]

thumbnail|Observing the air traffic in Rõuge, [[Estonia]]

randomized controlled trial

experimental method designed to reduce bias, typically accomplished by randomly allocating subjects to two or more groups, with one being a control group

design of experiments

scientific craft

user experience research methodology, consisting of a randomized experiment with at least two variants, denoted as A and B

natural experiment

empirical study in which individuals/clusters exposed to the experimental and control conditions are determined by factors outside the control of the investigators (nature), but the process governing the exposures arguably resembles random assignment

A Boy and His Atom

stop-motion film directed by Nico Casavecchia

scientific control

subject or observation selected to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable of an experiment

American sleeplessness world record holder

21 grams experiment

1907 pseudo-scientific study by Duncan MacDougall

Controlled Impact Demonstration

1984 experiment involving purposeful crash of a Boeing 720, carried out for NASA and the FAA

intention to treat analysis

Form of study design and analysis for medical studies

list of experiments

Wikimedia list article

Rubin causal model

method of statistical analysis

2012 Boeing 727 crash experiment

televised crash test experiment

random assignment

process involving chance used in research for allocating experimental subjects to groups

randomized experiment

experiment using randomness in some aspect, usually to aid in removal of bias

self-experimentation

Self-experimentation refers to single-subject research in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself.

average treatment effect

measure to compare interventions in randomized experiments; the difference in mean outcomes between treatment units and control units

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

book by Joseph Priestley

lost in the mall technique

memory implantation technique

long-term experiment

experimental study on the empirical extraction of information over a long period

initials of the technology company IBM written using atoms

Experiments and Observations on Electricity

book by Benjamin Franklin