Question

Maya believes inchworms are faster than snails.she conducts an experiment to test her hypothesis which of the following would show her confirmation bias?
A-maya disproves her hypothesis
B-maya proves her hypothesis
C-maya ignores the inchworms which are slower than snails
D-maya focuses equally on all worms in the experiment

Answer 1

C. maya ignores the inchworms which are slower than snails. For the information to be correct she would have to record every inchworm and snail not just the inchworms that beat the snails.

Answer 2

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Maya believes that inchworms are faster when compared with snails. To prove this hypothesis she performs experiment and while performing experiment she ignored the inchworms that moves slower than snails.

This is a biased condition because she ignored the inchworms that were slow.

If she would have been unbiased then she should have tested all the inchworms that were slow or fast from snails.

Hence, option C is the correct answer.