Professor Rose Was Asked to Design an Experiment to Test

question 62

Essay

Professor Rose was asked to design an experiment to test whether obese people would lose weight on a new diet plan.Professor Rose was not a methodologist.Rose asked for your help.You immediately told Rose that the selected design would have to be sensitive to the issues of statistical regression,diffusion or imitation of treatment,compensatory rivalry,and demoralization.Rose said,"I don't understand." Explain these issues to Rose.Suggest and explain a design that would control for these problems.

---

Definitions:

Temporal

Relating to time or denoting the temples of the skull.

Posterior Cerebral Artery

A blood vessel at the back of the brain that supplies oxygen-rich blood to the occipital lobe, important for visual processing.

Occipital Lobe

Situated at the back part of the head, this brain region is dedicated to analyzing visual data.

Gray Matter

The darker-colored regions of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of neuronal cell bodies and lacking myelin, involved in muscle control and sensory perception.