What i learned. . .

Looking up on the website, I was very interested how science was compared to a "cookbook". It quotes, "pull a problem off the shelf, throw in an observation, mix in a few questions, sprinkle on a hypothesis, put the whole mixture into a 350° experiment — and voila, 50 minutes later you'll be pulling a conclusion out of the oven!" An observation is looking (observing) the items that you will be working with and not playing with them at all. Then you guess or predict what will happen using your "if", "then", and "because", which is called a hypothesis. Soon enough you put all the things into action and begin your experiment. Testing your hypothesis, you gather all your data, making you closer to your conclusion.  However, experiments are not just that easy, their are little things you need to know about. A variable is a type of object that you are measuring. Two variables called independent variable and dependent variable are two different things. Independent variables stand alone and are not effected by other things. For examples: How old you are can be an independent variable, factors such as exercise, dieting, or doing your nails will not change your age. On the other hand a dependant variable is exactly how it sounds, and depends on other factors. For example: Test scores could be a dependant variable and it will and can be effected by the amount of sleep or the amount of study.


A double-blind trial is actually very funny, well it is to me anyways. A vaccine or medication is known to heal or help others. Most medicines have the all the ingrediants but others have only 50% or less. The doctor gives the patient a placebo (medication with less that 30% or more). Tells the boy to take this for a week and you will feel better, soon enough the kid is up on his feet jumping around. Why is it that even though its not all medication it helped him? Its kind of like its all mental. .  cool right? So all in all , the patient or the doctor know which group of medicine your getting , you don't even know of your taking the placebo or the real medicine.