Assignment: Want you to focus on a fun research methods task. At the end of the chapter 1 slides, there is a link to the movie Ghostbusters, which has a horrible study. For the final part of this first week discussion, I want you to discuss this film clip. What was wrong with the Ghostbusters ESP experiment and how could it be improved to meet scientific standards? Specifically, try to identify three things: the hypothesis, the independent variable (the variable the researcher manipulated), and the dependent variable (the variable the researcher measured)
Review YouTube Video: Ghostbusters opening scene