Suppose that you are the Safety Manager for a company, and youhave to find out if a new method of safety training is better thanthe method you are currently using. Explain how you would do thisby conducting a between-groups experiment with the workers, who areorganized into 10 teams.
You must answer in complete sentences for full marks.
- State a Hypothesis. (0.5 marks)
- What would you measure to find out if the new training methodis better? (1 mark) Identify a limitation of what you measure orhow you measure it. (1 mark)
- State the Independent Variable and the Dependent Variable. (0.5marks)
- Who would be in the Experimental Group and who would be in theControl Group? (0.5 marks) How should these groups be assigned toavoid any bias? (1 mark)
- What would you do with the data you collect to test yourhypothesis? (0.5 marks)
