Question

Nancy and Paul are designing an experiment to measure the amount of honey produced by each of the bee hives they keep. What should Paul and Nancy do to ensure a fair comparison between all the hives?
Create a scale that can measure the density of the harvested honey.

Take pictures of the combs before and after they are removed from the hive.

Document the number of bees as compared to the amount of honey per hive.

Establish a standard unit and method for measuring the honey.

Answer 1

What Paul and Nancy should do to ensure a fair comparison between all the hives is to document the number of bees as compared to the amount of honey per hive.
This is the only fair comparison, because they will know approximately how much each of the groups produced compared to the number of bees.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is "Document the number of bees as compared to the amount of honey per hive".

Explanation:

Choosing a proper criteria to evaluate different populations is one critical step of design of experiments. It is very important that the criteria of evaluation really measures what the researcher is trying to study. In this case, Nancy and Paul want to measure the amount of honey produced by each of the bee hives. Document the number of bees as compared to the amount of honey per hive would be a proper criteria to fairly compare the bee hives. This measure would be a better criteria than just measuring the honey directly because by measuring the amount of honey in comparison to the number of bees, the variable of the amount of bees does not interfere with the data.