Reference no: EM132303994
Question: Short Answer: Answer the remaining questions about the study described. Be sure to address each question completely. The description will be repeated for each question so that you don't have to toggle back and forth.
Description: As an employee of the "meat" company Spam, it is your job to determine which style of Spam people like best: traditional style, spicy style, or chunky style. You are also responsible for determining whether or not people prefer the newly developed "fresh" Spam that needs to be refrigerated (it also comes in traditional, spicy, and chunky varieties), or the regular Spam in a can (i.e., that does not need to be refrigerated). You ask 100 participants to taste all 6 different kinds of Spam and rate how much they like each variety using a Likert scale ranging from 1 (do not like at all) to 10 (like a lot). All participants try the regular Spam (that does not need to be refrigerated) before they try the fresh Spam. The average ratings for each variety of Spam are listed below.
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Regular Spam, Traditional: 5
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Fresh Spam, Traditional: 6
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Regular Spam, Spicy: 4
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Fresh Spam, Spicy: 5
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Regular Spam, Chunky: 3
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Fresh Spam, Chunky: 4
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NOTE: Please use the above details to solve these questions:
1. In one sentence, state what the researcher is studying.
2. Identify the independent variable(s).
3. Identify the dependent variable(s).
4. How was/were the dependent variable(s) measured?
5. Is this study a between subjects, within subjects, or mixed design?
6. Is this a basic experiment or a factorial experiment?
7. Using the language discussed in class, how would you describe the design of this study? (e.g. descriptive, correlational, experimental)
8. Describe one problem with this study (i.e., a confound).
9. Do participants like regular Spam more than fresh Spam?
10. Do participants like traditional, spicy, or chunky style Spam the best?
11. Is there an interaction in this study? Describe how you know if there is or is not an interaction in this study, and what this interaction (or lack of an interaction) means.