Author Question: The video focusses on which method of showing support for marriage equality? A. Marching in front ... (Read 57 times)

folubunmi · **on:** Jul 24, 2018

The video focusses on which method of showing support for marriage equality?
A. Marching in front of the Supreme Court with signs expressing support.
B. Collecting many signatures in favor of marriage equality.
C. Sending many spam emails declaring support for marriage equality.
D. Changing your profile image on Facebook to the red symbol representing marriage equality.

Question 2

The guys in the video set up an experiment to compare the two game strategies, just as a researcher might set up an experiment to compare the effectiveness of two treatments. Which of the following statements is true about how these experiments are different?
A. The guys in the video conduct their experiment 20 times for each strategy but a researcher studying treatments would only conduct the experiment one time for each treatment.
B. The guys in the video know what the actual ANSWER should be if they were to conduct their experiment with or on all possible cases, while the researcher studying treatments does not.
C. The guys in the video record the result for each case, while a researcher studying treatments would not.
D. There are no differences in how a researcher conducts an experiment comparing two treatments and how these guys conducted an experiment to compare two game strategies.

Viet Thy · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D. Changing your profile image on Facebook to the red symbol representing marriage equality.

FEEDBACK:
The video is about online campaigns and describes how many people changed their Facebook profile image to the red symbol representing marriage equality.

Answer to Question 2

B. The guys in the video know what the actual ANSWER should be if they were to conduct their experiment with or on all possible cases, while the researcher studying treatments does not.

FEEDBACK:
When researchers compare treatments, they never know exactly how these treatments will perform if they were able to test the treatments in all people in their population of interest. They cannot test treatments in all people, which is why they have to select a sample that they hope is representative of their population of interest, and then use statistics to draw inferences from that sample to apply to the population. In the Monty Hall Problem or in games of chance when we know, for example, that there are 52 cards with exactly 13 cards of each suit, we can work out the exact probabilities of every combination, so that if we were to conduct the experiment an infinite number of times, we would know the ANSWER we would get. Most research is conducted when the true ANSWER is not known or cannot be worked out.

In this case, the probability of winning is if you switch your selection to the cup that was not shown, and if you stick with your original choice. The purpose of the experiment was to demonstrate this surprising result.