Question

You want to do research on how sugar affects attention in small children. Compare and contrast how this could be studied using the experimental and survey method. Make sure that you explain the appropriate parts as you set it up. Which method do you think would be better to use and why?

Answer 1

If one were to study this experimentally, one would have a control and an experimental group which would enable us to see how attention changes in time in a group of children not receiving sugar and a group of children receiving sugar. In a survey method, we would just hand out questionnaires which would enable us to see a similar thing but with more noise in the dataset.