So, for my experimental research methods class, we need to come up w/ a hypothesis, and then write a research proposal. This does not really need to be a real original research proposal, and we won't really be sending it to the IRB or anything, but it's mainly just so we get the feeling on HOW to write the research paper.
The idea is to come up w/ a hypothesis, and then find scholarly articles to back up this hypothesis, and then form a research proposal around this, and using the articles to back up your hypothesis.
I think that kind of makes sense?
Anyway, i was thinking of doing something w/ Creatine, and the positive cognitive effects. I think there are probably a good number of articles on creatine, but can anyone help me with the hypothesis part, and maybe change the group i'm targeting, or be more specific?
Thanks!
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Shouldn't you do the research (find scholarly articles on the topic in general) and then form a hypothesis?
For example, you find one study that finds x. You say you think their methods were inaccurate, and you think the outcome should have been y.
Does that make sense? I've never been in an experimental research methods class.
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Shouldn't you do the research (find scholarly articles on the topic in general) and then form a hypothesis?
For example, you find one study that finds x. You say you think their methods were inaccurate, and you think the outcome should have been y.
Does that make sense? I've never been in an experimental research methods class.
yes, in a way.
but i can pretty much form a hypothesis about any articles.
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Try using pubmed.com as a quick search energy for some scholary articles on creatine.
Formulate your hypothesis based off the number of responses you get. For example if creatine and cognition only generates 3 response articles, your probably looking at too narrow of a topic to get quality references.
Of course, if it were to generate 5,000 response, this is too broad of a topic and needs to be more specific. I would shoot for a hypothesis where searching the key words gets me over 20 but under 200 responses.
Don't you actually need to come up with a null hypothesis, Zach? So i.e., creatine has no benefit in cognitive abilities of subjects supplementing with it... then you disprove the null hypothesis.
You'd think I would know how to formulate the questions; I have to read journals all the friggin' time. I'll look at one and get back to this later on this week.
Can someone help me w/ a Psych paper?
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