Technical aspects, ethics, and accepted norms or standards related to designing, conducting, or reporting research. Also, questions on teaching research design.
Questions tagged [experiment-design]
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Is is ethical to not compensate experiment participants who withdraw from the study?
I do experiments on learning and instruction for my dissertation. They are almost no risks in participating in our studies--except maybe boredom since they tend to run for 30 minutes to 1 hour. We get a lot of unmotivated students who don't really…
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Why is it considered sub-par to re-test something that has been shown before as opposed to addressing a knowledge gap?
Firstly, apologies if this is the incorrect StackExchange child to post this one. The only other study design questions I could find were here.
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Common feedback I get as I plan different projects for my PhD are "explain where the research gap…
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Fine-tuning parameters for existing methods
I'm comparing my method against existing methods by doing some experiments on one dataset.
The existing methods do not provide results on the considered dataset.
My question is: Can I use default parameters from the existing methods? The fact is…
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Is it usually allowed to use lie detecting technique (maybe using neural activities) during post-experimental inquiry?
When an experimenter want to find out about e.g. what is the hypothesis perceived by the subjects via post-experimental inquiry, if the subjects answered that they did not perceive any hypothesis, it might be helpful to find out if the subjects are…
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Is it possible to request a scientific experiment from a laboratory?
I have a scientific experiment that I need done to prove a theory of mine. Unfortunately I don't have the resources to perform said experiment like a fully functional laboratory such as Los Alamos National Laboratory would. Is it possible to request…
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"Fake" Things that are used in Experiments
What do you call the "things" that you used in experiment, but not in real life? Things that are made for experiment/simulation purpose. For example, phantom for human body.
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