1. The girl should not be moving, the people she approaches simply move away from HER I bet they don't even see the sign.
2. She should not be laughing
3. It would be more interesting to make her wear "professional" or "casual" cloting
Kudos to the excellent remarks by 777Skeptic, I agree with you, especially the fact that the holder of the sign should be blind to the actual direction the arrow is pointing.
We can't be sure if it's the sign that's directing them or your body language. You seem to turn in such a way it makes them want to go that way. You should double-blind the experiment such that you don't even know which way the arrow is pointing, that way you won't bias it.
Did you do a control group where the sign didn't have an arrow? Was there a statistical signifigance when there was and wasn't an arrow?
But you moved your body to the left or to the right of the crowds. Not to mention that in order for your results to be valid, everything other then the arrow's direction must be constant.
the behavior you attempted to elicit from the stimulus didn't manifest due to the fact that your construct was poorly operationalized.
ez4u2beme 2 years ago
what is this experiment trying to prove?
albopride101 3 years ago
This experiment was poorly conducted~
artngo 4 years ago 2
Also, I hope this was just for course credit and not a thesis project?
greedkiller 4 years ago
1. The girl should not be moving, the people she approaches simply move away from HER I bet they don't even see the sign.
2. She should not be laughing
3. It would be more interesting to make her wear "professional" or "casual" cloting
Kudos to the excellent remarks by 777Skeptic, I agree with you, especially the fact that the holder of the sign should be blind to the actual direction the arrow is pointing.
greedkiller 4 years ago
We can't be sure if it's the sign that's directing them or your body language. You seem to turn in such a way it makes them want to go that way. You should double-blind the experiment such that you don't even know which way the arrow is pointing, that way you won't bias it.
Did you do a control group where the sign didn't have an arrow? Was there a statistical signifigance when there was and wasn't an arrow?
777Skeptic 4 years ago 2
But you moved your body to the left or to the right of the crowds. Not to mention that in order for your results to be valid, everything other then the arrow's direction must be constant.
marylisse 4 years ago
interesting..
may i know the aim of this experiment?
keep me posted!
hahn89 4 years ago