Week 1 Blog Post
1. It is possible that the student does not care about that the class resulting in lack of sleep causing disruption by falling asleep.
2. A- I would test this hypothesis by simply placing a body camera on the subject/ or having one observe the student on a daily basis. The camera would clearly display the actions of the student by showing what is happening throughout the night.
B- If the student did not receive enough sleep the night before, than this would support my hypothesis.
C- If the student got enough sleep than this would falsify my hypothesis.
3. An untestable explanation would be the teacher or a different student putting this student into a sleeping magic spell 15 minutes into class.
2. A- I would test this hypothesis by simply placing a body camera on the subject/ or having one observe the student on a daily basis. The camera would clearly display the actions of the student by showing what is happening throughout the night.
B- If the student did not receive enough sleep the night before, than this would support my hypothesis.
C- If the student got enough sleep than this would falsify my hypothesis.
3. An untestable explanation would be the teacher or a different student putting this student into a sleeping magic spell 15 minutes into class.
Testable Hypothesis (4/5) - You have two hypotheses here... one is that the student doesn't care about the subject and the other is that the student isn't getting enough sleep. You can only test one here at a time.
ReplyDeleteTest (3/5) - It looks like you are going with lack of sleep? To test a hypothesis, you need to actually change the conditions, as conditions were changed in the example in the guidelines. What you are doing is gathering information to support that your hypothesis is logical (or not). It doesn't actually produce evidence to support that it IS the cause of the problem. To do that, you would have to make sure he gets enough sleep and see if it changes the results.
Support (2/5) - As explained above, you actually need to change the conditions to test an hypothesis. All you have here is evidence that it would be logical to test this hypothesis. You haven't actually demonstrated that there is an actual connection between this possible cause and the effect of falling asleep in class. How about making sure he gets a good night sleep and seeing if the results change in the predicted manner? To support this hypothesis, the student should stay awake in class after getting a good night's sleep, correct?
Falsify (5/5) - This would actually rule out the hypothesized cause as the source of the problem.
Untestable Hypothesis (5/10) - But the teacher (or the other student) are both real, correct? So couldn't we see they perform this action? So why wouldn't this be testable? I realize that the idea of a sleeping magic spell seems absurd, but keep in mind that "absurd" isn't the same thing as "untestable". Just because something is ridiculous doesn't mean it can't be falsified. I can hypothesize that the student is a superhero and gets no sleep at night because he spends his nights flying around the city, fighting crime. Yes, ridiculous, but I can falsify this by just observing the student an noting that he doesn't leave his house at night. :-)