Problem:
In both passages Response posts using testable ideas or any advice
The experimental design that I have chosen to examine is whether or not the effect of social media likes on a post affects someone's self-esteem. For this experiment, I will conduct a design where each participant posts the same basic photo of themselves, and they will then receive manipulated feedback on the post that is either a high amount of likes or a low amount. Most, if not all, of us are active on social media, we scroll daily seeing how many likes a video or photos gets. Those that are famous get way more than your hometown friends do. So, I'm here to see how this will make someone feel. My hypothesis is that the participants who receive higher likes will feel more confident and better about themselves compared to those who receive a lower number of likes. I will randomly select participants from interviewing them on the streets to see how active they are on social media daily. Participants' information will then be put into a randomizer and chosen to be placed into the high-like condition or low-like condition. The independent variable will be the number of likes received, and the dependent variable will be the participants self esteem level after receiving feedback. The experimental group will be participants who receive a high number of likes, and the control group will be participants who receive a low number of likes. The operational definitions include "high likes" being 150 or more and "low likes" being lower than 10 likes. This experiment will truly show us if someone's self-esteem is partially decided on whether or not the likes they get on a social media post. This is something that most of us do not realize have taken over our everyday life and are a secret hiding factor on how we feel.
In this experiment, the effect of personability would be tested, to see if specifically stating someone's name before asking for a favor would have a different outcome from if the same researcher would asked strangers generally for a favor. The hypothesis for this experiment is that repeating someone's name before asking a favor of them will leave similar results for the number of people that complete the favor between the two tests.
To be specific, the experiment would take place in three environments, a college campus walkway, a shopping center, and a public library. Additionally, every third person that walked by would be asked the favor until 10 unique participants are reached for each group. After a participant is chosen, they would flip a coin and participants that get heads, would be asked their name, while participants that get tails would be simply be asked to complete the favor. Both choosing every third person and using multiple environments for testing would add a variable of random sampling: and external validity: how well a result of a study can be generalized to other situations outside of the experiment. Additionally, flipping a coin to determine which group a participant is a part of would add random assignment to the experiment, increasing internal validity: how confident a researcher can be that the independent variable directly caused change in the dependent variable, instead of other influences. The group the researcher would ask a favor of without any personal mentions would be the control group in this experiment. On the contrary, the group the researcher asks the name of before asking for a favor would be the experimental group. The results of this experiment will explore the subjects of helpful behavior: being whether the participant is willing to complete a favor for the researcher, and personal requests: being the action of using the participant's personal details such as their name to request a favor. The favor would be general such as taking a selfie with the researcher, pointing the researcher in the direction of something, or recommendations for a select subject. The favor chosen would be the exact same across all participants and locations. Need Assignment Help?