Difference Between Milk And Coffee Experiment

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Imagine that you are going to design and perform the experiment described in the dialogue.

1. What is the hypothesis that will be tested in the experiment?
If the milk is added to the cup before the coffee is, then the model will be able to tell the difference in flavor 9 times out of ten.
2. Why is it important to offer the model more than just two cups (one with the milk added first and one with the milk added second)? Explain your answer.
I believe it is important to offer more than one cup of coffee because a larger data set will increase the likelihood of the results being caused by causality and not just luck. This means the result of the experiment would have a clear cause. If there are only two cups of coffee it will be very easy to simply guess which cup is which. Furthermore, the odds are …show more content…

I believe a good sample size would be 100 people drinking 10 cups of coffee each. The correlation or lack of would be very clear and it would be hard for others to doubt your experiment.
4. Describe exactly how the cups should be prepared. Does every cup need to be exactly the same in every way except the order of the addition of milk and coffee? Can you actually make every cup identical?
The person preparing the coffee should follow the following guidelines. First, the volume of the coffee and milk should have the exact same volume in each cup. Secondly. the temperatures of the drinks should be the same and kept the same until the drink is sipped. Third, the milk should be the same brand, type, batch, and preferably from the same carton. The coffee should be steeped at the same temperature, come from the same package of coffee beans, cooked in the same way, and using the same water. Lastly, you should also pour the coffee into the same cup because sometimes the taste of the cup can affect the overall

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