BIOL2022 L04 Sampling and experiments: Design is all! #2 Avoid confounding: PROCEDURAL CONTROLS and REPLICATION
Descripción
Module 1, Lecture 4
By the end of this lecture you should understand:
- The need for proper controls in experiments
o Effectively for everything you do!
- The need for interspersion of treatments
Prediction: If snakes are experimentally excluded, then the population of rabbits will increase, or at least will be greater than that where snake predation happens.
Design: Exclusion fences.
Problem: Hawks perch on fences using them as a vantage point from which to predate on the rabbits.
Procedural control: [blank_start]____________[blank_end]