Homework SourseA TV commercial advertises a new amazing cure for sunburn As
A TV commercial advertises a new amazing cure for sunburn. As evidence of how well the medication works, the salesperson has a group of four people talk about using it. the patients say they each applied the medication and felt better after five days. name one specific reason this testimonial is pseudoscience rather than properly- designed scientific testing.
A TV commercial advertises a new amazing cure for sunburn. As evidence of how well the medication works, the salesperson has a group of four people talk about using it. the patients say they each applied the medication and felt better after five days. name one specific reason this testimonial is pseudoscience rather than properly- designed scientific testing.
Solution
A scientific study has proper steps that lead to a conclusion, the steps are creating a hypothesis and then doing an experiment to test it. the experiment has 3 types of variables, a dependent, an independent, and controlled variables that never change. In a scientific experiment, we should always be able to reproduce or replicate the results as well.
the problems with this testimonial is that firstly it does not show replicated results on different people.
secondly, they also did not keep any controlled variables like testing the patients who applied the medication versus the people who did not apply any medication, because it might be possible that after 5 days, the skin started to regenerate itself and that\'s why people felt better.
