experiment – \u03c0\u03b5\u03af\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03b1 \/ \u03b4\u03bf\u03ba\u03b9\u03bc\u03ae<\/p>\n

an empirical study designed to relate cause and effect by ruling out as many alternative causes as possible and by actually manipulating the cause to obtain the effect, as opposed to merely finding a correlation between the two that may not be due to causation.<\/p>\n

Experiments come in many forms, but a prototypical example is to try to determine if some change will result in an improvement. For instance, if I add a certain button to my word processor, will people be able to write their documents faster. In this example you would have an \u201cexperimental condition\u201d, using the word processor with the button added, and a \u201ccontrol condition\u201d, using the word processor without the button. The \u201cindependent variable\u201d is the factor you are manipulating, whether or not the button is present. The \u201cdependent variable\u201d is what you are measuring to determine the effect, in this case, the amount of time to produce the same document with each version of the word processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

experiment – \u03c0\u03b5\u03af\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03b1 \/ \u03b4\u03bf\u03ba\u03b9\u03bc\u03ae an empirical study designed to relate cause and effect by ruling out as many alternative causes as possible and by actually manipulating the cause to obtain the effect, as opposed to merely finding a correlation between the two that may not be due to causation. Experiments come in many forms, but a prototypical example is to try to determine if some change will result in an improvement. For instance, if I add a certain button to my word processor, will people be able to write their documents faster. In this example you would have an \u201cexperimental condition\u201d, using the word processor with the button added, and a \u201ccontrol condition\u201d, using the word processor without the button. The \u201cindependent variable\u201d is the factor you are manipulating, whether or not the button is present. The \u201cdependent variable\u201d is what you are measuring to determine the effect, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6079","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/6079\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xylem.aegean.gr\/~modestos\/mo.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}