American University in Cairo
RHET 1020
Scientific Thinking – Quiz
The Great Parking Debate
The Question:
Identify the specific research question(s) implied by their discussion.
What hypothesis would your group suggest?
What predictions can you make if your hypothesis is correct?
How could you test the predictions? In other words, if you w
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Scientific Thinking – Quiz
The Great Parking Debate
The Question:
Identify the specific research question(s) implied by their discussion.
What hypothesis would your group suggest?
What predictions can you make if your hypothesis is correct?
How could you test the predictions? In other words, if you were to investigate this issue,
how might you do it?
Finding a Method:
What method are the researchers using to investigate the research question (case study,
survey, naturalistic observation, or experiment)?
How does this test the hypothesis?
Based on the hypothesis, what would you expect they would find?
And Now, Some Results:
What does this tell us? Do the data support your hypothesis?
What might be a weakness (or some weaknesses) of this method?
How might the researchers use another method to explore this research question?
Are there additional effects that the researchers should investigate?
What do you think the hypotheses of the researchers were?
What would you predict they would find?
What made this study an experiment and not a naturalistic observation?
More Results:
What did the researchers find about the effect of intrusion on length of time to leave a
space?
What does it tell us about what people think they do and think others do in response to
intrusion?
Do these results and the results of the other studies tell us about anything else besides
parking? Do people behave in similar ways in other places besides parking lots? In what
other kinds of situations might these results help us understand human behavior?
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