A scientist told his student assistants that he had sorted groups of mice by their intelligence and asked the assistants to assess the groups' maze-solving abilities. The scientist had not actually sorted the mice by intelligence. The students rated the "highest intelligence" group of mice as the best maze solvers and the "lowest intelligence" group as the worst maze solvers. What was the scientist trying

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Dakota Dunlap

4 January, 22:52

A scientist told his student assistants that he had sorted groups of mice by their intelligence and asked the assistants to assess the groups' maze-solving abilities. The scientist had not actually sorted the mice by intelligence. The students rated the "highest intelligence" group of mice as the best maze solvers and the "lowest intelligence" group as the worst maze solvers. What was the scientist trying

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Franco Golden · Answer 1

Basically the scientist was trying to see whether the students would be honest with their answer, or whether they would just give one that would seem more credible.

Carmelo · Answer 2

It is called the placeebo effect. He was testing it on his students.